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Billups v. State

Citations

  • 493 S.E.2d 8
  • 228 Ga. App. 804
  • 97 Fulton County D. Rep. 3877
  • 1997 Ga. App. LEXIS 1280

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  • concluding that a defendant need only show that the prosecution knew of the facts and evidence underlying the additional claims
  • “As an expert in the law[, a prosecutor] cannot be heard to say she did not know of the ‘several crimes’ arising from [the] conduct [described in the police report].”
  • “The prosecutor’s knowledge of all the facts determines whether a single prosecution is required.”
  • Because a prosecutor is “an expert in the law,” once a prosecutor reads an arrest report and actually knows all of the facts of the defendant’s conduct, he or she. is charged with the knowledge of the various crimes that arise from such conduct.

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Judges: Birdsong, Eldridge, Banke

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