CRIMES AND OFFENSES Offenses Against Public Order and Safety: Increase Penalty for Commission of Crime with a Firearm by a Convicted Felon; Provide for Life Confinement Upon a Subsequent Conviction; Provide for Felony Offense of Riot When a Person in a Penal Institution Commits an Act of Violence

Authors

Georgia State University Law Review

Document Type

Peach Sheet

Abstract

The Act provides that a felon, who previously has been convicted of one of eight serious felonies and then subsequently is convicted for using a firearm in the commission of certain enumerated felonies, shall be punished by imprisonment for fifteen years to run consecutively with any other sentence. The Act provides that upon the second such conviction, the convicted felon will be sentenced to life imprisonment without probation. The Act also provides that a prisoner in a penal institution who commits a violent act commits the felonious offense of riot in a penal institution.

Recommended Citation

Georgia State University Law Review, CRIMES AND OFFENSES Offenses Against Public Order and Safety: Increase Penalty for Commission of Crime with a Firearm by a Convicted Felon; Provide for Life Confinement Upon a Subsequent Conviction; Provide for Felony Offense of Riot When a Person in a Penal Institution Commits an Act of Violence, 12 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (2012).
Available at: https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol12/iss1/52