[quote] Georgia to Weaken Citizen’s Arrest Law Cited in Ahmaud Arbery’s Death

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News Article

Publication Date

3-31-2021

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The revision of the law puts Georgia on the vanguard of a broader effort to reconsider the very notion of a citizen’s arrest — a fraught and contentious act that is allowed in every state, either by common law or statute. Ira P. Robbins, a law professor at American University, has called it “a doctrine whose time should have passed many decades — or centuries — ago,” arguing that it is often unclear whether a person has the legal authority to make an arrest.

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The New York Times

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