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GA: Hearings held on citizen's arrest repeal
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Marissa McCall Dodson, public policy director for the Southern Center for Human Rights, said the citizen’s arrest law could be repealed while maintaining the ability of shopkeepers to detain shoplifting suspects, according to Capitol Beat. Homeowners would still be protected by the legal right to self-defense, she said.
But without citizen’s arrest, Georgians wouldn’t have a right to detain someone breaking into their home or otherwise committing a crime against them. They would have a right to use deadly force against them.
If citizen’s arrest is repealed, “you incentivize a homeowner to kill someone rather than detain them under the citizen’s arrest law,” Porter said, according to Capitol Beat.
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PHORTO
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Wrong link.
Go here: https://times-herald.com/news/2020/07/hearings-held-on-citizens-arrest-repeal |
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