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Jenkins v. State

Citations

  • 604 S.E.2d 789
  • 278 Ga. 598
  • 2004 Fulton County D. Rep. 3579
  • 2004 Ga. LEXIS 960

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that “if the State prevails on this issue before trial, the defendant may still require the State to prove at trial that the charge is not barred by the statute of limitations” (emphasis supplied)
  • noting that statutes of limitation exist “for the protection of the defendant”
  • addressing the procedure for litigating a plea in bar based upon the statute of limitation
  • rejecting the argument that the State did not have \actual knowledge\ of the suspect's identity until the prosecution received a match to a palm print in a fingerprint database
  • “Since Crawford v. Washington, we have interpreted ‘testimonial statements’ to include those statements made by witnesses to police officers investigating a crime.”
  • “[I]t is true that an exception to the statute of limitations must be pled in the indictment if the State is relying on one.”

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Judges: Fletcher

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