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Green v. State

Citations

  • 532 S.E.2d 111
  • 242 Ga. App. 868
  • 2000 Fulton County D. Rep. 1567
  • 2000 Ga. App. LEXIS 364

How courts have described this case

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  • observing that “proof that either the victim or the aggressor in a sexual assault had (or did not have) a sexually transmitted disease certainly can be relevant”
  • new evidence did not warrant new trial because it did not show “falseness, impossibility, or even improbability of the victim’s direct testimony at trial”
  • this Court concluded that although “proof that either the victim or the aggressor in a sexual assault had (or did not have
  • “To ask the defendant if he himself is lying serves the important function of testing his veracity and credibility and so is well within the appropriate scope of cross-examination.”
  • failure of counsel to make meritless objection not evidence of ineffective assistance

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Judges: Miller, Pope, Smith

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