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Gunter v. State

Citations

  • 316 Ga. App. 485
  • 729 S.E.2d 597
  • 2012 Fulton County D. Rep. 2259
  • 2012 WL 2434745
  • 2012 Ga. App. LEXIS 591

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  • finding that appellant acquiesced to trial court’s decision not to give the jury charge
  • “[A]bsent a written request to charge, the failure to instruct the jury on a lesser included offense is not error.”
  • The defendant could not prevail on an ineffective assistance claim when she waived the charge of a lesser included offense against her attorney’s advice.
  • assault occurred when defendant threatened victim “in a way that put her in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving a violent injury.”
  • jury was authorized to conclude that victim was placed in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving violent injury, where defendant threatened her life and chased after her with a large knife, 10 despite the fact that the knife was covered in its sheath

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Judges: Adams, McFadden

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