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Brown v. State

Citations

  • 512 S.E.2d 260
  • 270 Ga. 601
  • 99 Fulton County D. Rep. 562
  • 1999 Ga. LEXIS 263

How courts have described this case

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  • defendant’s statement correctly edited to delete irrelevant and inadmissible references to murder victim’s bad behavior
  • “Evidence is relevant and, therefore, admissible it if tends to prove a material issue in the case.”
  • “because the [third person] was not even present at the time of the shooting, there was no evidence that [the third person] was in any immediate danger from [the defendant]”

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Judges: Carley, Hunstein

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