Griffin v. State

How courts have described this case

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• applying former OCGA § 24-9-80 to detective’s testimony that defendant was not telling the truth, though no mention of whether defendant testified at trial
• there are affirmative defenses, such as accident, in addition to those statutorily enumerated; State has burden to disprove affirmative defense
• error to allow State to repeatedly question its detective-witness as to his opinion of defendant’s credibility
• where a defendant raises an affirmative defense, the State has the burden to disprove the affirmative defense beyond a reasonable doubt
• state’s repeated questions of its witness on redirect examination, which specifically pertained to witness’s beliefs about defendant’s credibility, were improper, even though state asked them in attempt to rehabilitate its witness in response to defense’s cross-examination questions
• state’s repeated questions of its witness on redirect examination, which specifically pertained to witness’s beliefs about defendant’s credibility, were improper, even though state asked them in attempt to rehabilitate its witness in response to defense’s cross examination questions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 107×
• Bishop v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 61×
• Stansell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-16· cited 53×
• Sevostiyanova v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-01-12· cited 31×
• Sawyer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 27×
• Bruce v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-05· cited 22×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-07-16· cited 22×
• Gaston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-07· cited 17×
• Seese v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-11-09· cited 16×
• Arthur v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-01· cited 9×
• Savage v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-02· cited 9×
• Connor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-17· cited 8×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-10· cited 6×
• Ehle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-30· cited 5×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-08-04· cited 2×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-05-23· cited 1×
• Melvin Gaston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-07

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-06-29· cited 99×
• Chandle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-05-10· cited 46×
• Levin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-07-08· cited 34×
• Shearer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-02-16· cited 23×
• State v. Shepperd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-13· cited 20×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-27· cited 17×