Carlson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Affirmative defenses are those in which the defendant admits doing the act charged but seeks to justify, excuse, or mitigate his conduct.”
• Even if a witness qualifies as an expert, testimony based solely on hearsay, not subject to a hearsay exception, is inadmissible.
• “[affirmative defenses are those in which the defendant admits doing the act charged but seeks to justify, excuse, or mitigate his conduct”
• defendant not entitled to have witness testify about the beneficial use of marijuana for certain ailments in support of defense of justification and not entitled to justification defense instruction
• defendant not entitled to have witness testify about the beneficial use of marijuana for certain ailments in support of defense of justification and not entitled to justification defense instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Shamsuddeen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-10· cited 14×
• In Re Copelan
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-31· cited 13×
• Mimms v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-13· cited 7×
• Webb v. Thomas Trucking, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-04· cited 3×
• State v. Koehn
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2001-12-12· cited 2×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Barrow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-12-02· cited 46×
• Love v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-01· cited 46×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-07-16· cited 42×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-27· cited 40×
• Department of Transportation v. Great Southern Enterprises, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-02-18· cited 30×
• Blincoe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-03-07· cited 20×
• Goodman v. Lipman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-11-19· cited 18×
• Hightower v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-17· cited 16×
• Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. Rider
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-09-07· cited 10×
• McEver v. Worrell Enterprises
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-11-20· cited 7×