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Johnson v. State

Citations

  • 708 S.E.2d 331
  • 288 Ga. 803
  • 2011 Fulton County D. Rep. 784
  • 2011 Ga. LEXIS 259

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  • holding that failure to object to comments made during closing argument waived issue, and further declining to review issue under “plain error” analysis
  • holding that failure to object to comments made during closing argument waived issue, and further declining to review issue under “plain error” analysis
  • holding that failure to object to comments made during closing argument waived issue, and further declining to review issue under “plain error” analysis
  • holding that the State presented sufficient corroborating evidence of the accomplice’s testimony where the testimony of the victim and another witness supported the accomplice’s testimony identifying Johnson as the shooter
  • reiterating that it is “not error to submit to the jury the question of whether a witness for the state was or was not an accomplice even where the witness has confessed to being an accomplice and has been jointly indicted with the defendant on trial”
  • reiterating that it is “not error to submit to the jury the question of whether a witness for the state was or was not an accomplice even where the witness has confessed to being an accomplice and has been jointly indicted with the defendant on trial”

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Judges: Nahmias

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