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Harrison v. State

Citations

  • 492 S.E.2d 218
  • 268 Ga. 574
  • 97 Fulton County D. Rep. 4029
  • 1997 Ga. LEXIS 707

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining the threshold showing required before evidence of a victim’s prior violence is admissible
  • trial court committed reversible error by informing “the jury that they did not have to consider voluntary manslaughter if they found appellant guilty of malice murder or felony murder”
  • the defendant who was hit by the victim a few minutes before she shot the victim, was unable to show the victim was the aggressor for the purpose of introducing evidence of the victim’s violent acts against others

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Judges: Benham, Hunstein, Carley, Thompson

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