Originally Posted by duck911
Originally Posted by Starman


Have you two actually read the GA statute for Trespass?


Question wasn't directed at me, but I did spend about 20 min looking over it this AM out of curiosity.

I'm not going to jump into the fray debating details that a jury will have to sort out, but it is not abundantly obvious to me the jogger was even trespassing. The closest language making his "visit" trespassing is this:


(b) A person commits the offense of criminal trespass when he or she knowingly and without authority:

(1) Enters upon the land or premises of another person or into any part of any vehicle, railroad car, aircraft, or watercraft of another person for an unlawful purpose;

He took nothing, just had a look. His lawyer could easily enough claim he was curious what kind of plywood they were using. Was there an unlawful purpose that be PROVED?

All of the other language in the GA trespass statute talk about having been warned to stay off the property, asked to leave, causing damage, etc.

None of which happened, from what I understand.

But I digress...


Its been said that they did indeed have at least one previous run in with the jogger.

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