· 10/19/2018
BACON v. the STATE.
Citations
- 820 S.E.2d 503
- 347 Ga. App. 689
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- holding that a defendant’s challenge solely to the presence of an interstate-commerce element while conceding factual guilt did not preclude acceptance of responsibility
- recognizing that because of the 2 defendant’s prior felony convictions, the omission of the Rehaif element did not affect any 3 “substantial rights, nor the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of the [trial].” (citations 4 omitted)
- finding “no reasonable probability” of a different outcome when the defendant was in prison for over a decade with six prior felony convictions
- finding “no reasonable probability” of a different outcome when the defendant was in prison for over a decade with six prior felony convictions
- finding an indictment sufficient where it named the charges against the defendant even though it did not identify facts for every single element of the charge
- finding in the trial 4 context that, “even if the district court had instructed the jury on the knowledge-of-status element, 5 there is no reasonable probability that the jury would have reached a different verdict…”
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Judges: Mercier
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