Cooley v. Georgia

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that the statute is not punitive in nature and, therefore, “the rule requiring the Court to construe penal statutes in favor of the defendant is inapplicable to the present case.”
• “The examination of crimes that have allegedly been committed indicates whether the incompetent defendant poses a future risk of harm.”
• “The examination of crimes that have allegedly been committed indicates whether the incompetent defendant poses a future risk of harm.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).