Johnson v. State

How courts have described this case

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• The trial court erred in admitting evidence of prior independent crimes when the defendant had not placed his character in issue and when the prior crimes had not been admitted as similar transactions.
• The trial court erred in admitting evidence of prior independent crimes when the defendant had not placed his character in issue and when the prior crimes had not been admitted as similar transactions.
• reversible error where there was no Rule 31.1 notice, trial court did not conduct hearing regarding admissibility of prior crimes in compliance with Rule 31.3 (B), and it was highly improbable that the error did not contribute to the verdict
• reversible error where there was no Rule 31.1 notice, trial court did not conduct hearing regarding admissibility of prior crimes in compliance with Rule 31.3 (B), and it was highly improbable that the error did not contribute to the 4 verdict
• “to protect an accused and to insure him of a fair and impartial trial before an unbiased jury, we have long embraced the fundamental principle that the general character of an accused is inadmissible unless the accused chooses to put his character in issue”
• “to protect an accused and to insure him of a fair and impartial trial before an unbiased jury, we have long embraced the fundamental principle that the general character of an accused is inadmissible unless the accused chooses to put his character in issue”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Al-Amin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-24· cited 78×
• Peoples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 75×
• Ferguson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-12-01· cited 48×
• Rayshad v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-12-01· cited 26×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-01· cited 9×
• Copprue v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-24· cited 7×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 7×
• Smallwood v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-22· cited 7×
• Hutchins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-14· cited 6×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-12· cited 3×
• Pelowski v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-13· cited 3×
• Chelsea Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-01
• Amanda Hutchins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-14

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-12-01· cited 743×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 87×
• Pye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 26×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-13· cited 26×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-20· cited 17×
• Davie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-10-30· cited 9×