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Franklin v. State

Citations

  • 263 S.E.2d 666
  • 245 Ga. 141
  • 1980 Ga. LEXIS 721

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  • finding no reversible error where court administrator and his secretary excused potential grand jurors for statutory and hardship reasons based on telephone calls without conducting investigations into excuses
  • finding no reversible error where court administrator and his secretary excused potential grand jurors for statutory and hardship reasons based on telephone calls without conducting investigations into excuses
  • rejecting defendant’s attack on court clerk’s handling of juror exemptions and excuses when there was no evidence that the representative nature of the jury lists was affected
  • rejecting defendant’s attack on court clerk’s handling of juror exemptions and excuses when there was no evidence that the representative nature of the jury lists was affected
  • evidence of mitigating circumstances involves evidence about the particular defendant and not evidence about the death penalty in general
  • proper mitigating evi dence involves evidence about the particular defendant and not evidence about the death penalty in general

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Judges: Hill, Jordan, Marshall

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