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McGarvey v. State

Citations

  • 368 S.E.2d 127
  • 186 Ga. App. 562
  • 1988 Ga. App. LEXIS 400
  • 1988 WL 48669

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  • holding that misconduct would not demand the extreme remedy of dismissal of the charge unless it caused demonstrable prejudice to the defendant’s constitutional or statutory rights or deprived him of a fair trial
  • no bar to retrial following mistrial based upon the defendant’s counsel referring to the prosecutor’s political ambitions during opening statements
  • defendant was not entitled to have indictment dismissed for prosecutorial misconduct based on the district attorney’s refusal to provide the defense with one of defendant’s statements, because exclusion of the statement was an available remedy
  • defendant was not entitled to have indictment dismissed for prosecutorial misconduct based on the district attorney’s refusal to provide the defense with one of defendant’s statements, because exclusion of the statement was an available remedy

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Judges: Birdsong, Banke, Beasley

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