Comments on: Georgia Supreme Court Considers the Limits of the Laws of Banishment and Physics http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/georgia-supreme-court-considers-the-limits-of-the-laws-of-banishment-and-physics/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tony Smith http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/georgia-supreme-court-considers-the-limits-of-the-laws-of-banishment-and-physics/#comment-11436 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:24:47 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/georgia-supreme-court-considers-the-limits-of-the-laws-of-banishment-and-physics/#comment-11436 I was banished from Washington County Ga. as a condition of my bond for a recent arrest. I’m 54 years old and this was the first time I had ever been arrested in my life. I have no previous arrest record and I am forced to leave my home and the county I have lived in all of my life. How can how can anyone do this before a person even goes to court? I need help from someoneon this. I am totaly disabled and have nowhere to live. I have a nice home that I can’t even go to. I’ve taken about all I can.

]]> By: deeply worried http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/georgia-supreme-court-considers-the-limits-of-the-laws-of-banishment-and-physics/#comment-5572 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:40:09 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/georgia-supreme-court-considers-the-limits-of-the-laws-of-banishment-and-physics/#comment-5572 Why run prisons? Very expensive with all those guards, food, etc.

Just sentence people to one square acre in the middle of the Great Dismal Swamp!

Or on the Dry Tortugas!

You can get probably 50,000 or more criminals into one acre I am sure.

]]> By: jonathanturley http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/georgia-supreme-court-considers-the-limits-of-the-laws-of-banishment-and-physics/#comment-5570 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:39:17 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/georgia-supreme-court-considers-the-limits-of-the-laws-of-banishment-and-physics/#comment-5570 Actually, he is not allowed to go down the road, but he can look down it from a safe distance.

While not called banishments, courts routinely restrict travel during a probation period for some offenders. However, this restriction is so excessive that it raises serious constitutional questions.

]]> By: deeply worried http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/georgia-supreme-court-considers-the-limits-of-the-laws-of-banishment-and-physics/#comment-5568 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:08:55 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/georgia-supreme-court-considers-the-limits-of-the-laws-of-banishment-and-physics/#comment-5568 I know very little about law beyond what an interested layman would, but how can such banishment sentences be constitutional? At what point does restricting the range of an allowed freedom of movement become de facto incarceration?

This seems like a very dangerous road to go down.

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