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Dukes v. State

Citations

  • 480 S.E.2d 340
  • 224 Ga. App. 305
  • 97 Fulton County D. Rep. 296
  • 1997 Ga. App. LEXIS 56

How courts have described this case

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

  • exclusion of evidence “ ‘was wholly harmless where other evidence of the same facts was introduced and admitted.’ ”
  • “ ‘failure to charge on a lesser included offense is never error absent a written request to do so.’ ”
  • victim’s past use of cocaine not admissible because no conviction of crime involving moral turpitude and because victim’s past use of drugs was unrelated to the issue of whether defendant committed aggravated assault upon him
  • \[W]e find no authority which indicates that investigators may testify to the fruits of their investigations without regard for the hearsay rule; rather such witnesses are bound by that rule and must testify from their own first-hand knowledge alone.\
  • “[W]e find no authority which indicates that investigators may testify to the fruits of their investigations without 20 regard for the hearsay rule; rather such witnesses are bound by that rule and must testify from their own first-hand knowledge alone.”

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Judges: Blackburn, Beasley, Banke

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