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Dotson v. State

Citations

  • 443 S.E.2d 650
  • 213 Ga. App. 7
  • 94 Fulton County D. Rep. 1562
  • 1994 Ga. App. LEXIS 449

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  • retrial barred because no alternatives to mistrial were considered after a single inadvertent admission was made by the defendant
  • no implied consent where “[t]he trial court gave [the defendant] no opportunity before declaring a mistrial either to object thereto or to present an argument as to [appropriate alternatives]”
  • “The trial court gave appellant no opportunity before declaring mistrial either to object thereto or to present an argument as to the appropriate means of correcting the . . . error[.]”

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Judges: Birdsong, Cooper, Blackburn

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