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Colon v. State

Citations

  • 568 S.E.2d 811
  • 256 Ga. App. 505
  • 2002 Fulton County D. Rep. 2257
  • 2002 Ga. App. LEXIS 941

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “police officers have the responsibility to ask medical questions as part of routine booking in order to fulfill the government’s obligation to provide medical treatment to one in custody”
  • holding that \police officers have the responsibility to ask medical questions as part of routine booking in order to fulfill the government's obligation to provide medical treatment to one in custody\
  • DUI conviction reversed; involuntary intoxication was available as an affirmative defense where defendant testified that someone put an unknown drug in his drink unbeknownst to him
  • police officers have the responsibility to ask medical questions as part of routine booking in order to fulfill the government’s obligation to provide medical treatment to one in custody, and such routine booking questions are generally considered exempt from Miranda
  • error in giving charge with clearly erroneous statement was not harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Mikell, Andrews, Phipps

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