McLean v. State

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• defendant must admit to the act of shooting victim in order to receive jury charge on the act allegedly having been done in self-defense
• no violation of OCGA § 17-8-57 when trial court told jury that defendant admitted shooting for purposes of defense theories of justification and accident
• no violation of OCGA § 17-8-57 when trial court told jury that defendant admitted shooting 7 for purposes of defense theories of justification and accident
• defendant must admit to the act of shooting victim in order to receive jury charge on the act allegedly having been done in self-defense
• “[T]o assert an affirmative defense, a defendant must admit the act, or he is not entitled to a charge on that defense.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “The existence of an alternative defense does not change the fact that the defendant admits the charged act for purposes of raising and presenting his affirmative defense, even if he denies it for other purposes.” (emphasis supplied)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 52×
• Hendrix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 51×
• McClure v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 48×
• Stuckey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 34×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 33×
• Cochran v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 31×
• MCCLURE v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-21· cited 10×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 9×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 4×
• McNeal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 4×
• Pennington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-27· cited 3×
• Stephen Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 2×
• MEDDINGS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-14· cited 2×
• McLean v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11
• Roland Croyle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Carlos Richard McClure v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-21
• Charles Lee Pennington, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-27

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Bishop v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-07-06· cited 61×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1860-01-15· cited 39×
• Murphy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-06· cited 39×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 37×
• Waldrip v. Head
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-12· cited 32×
• Humphrey v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 30×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-11-17· cited 29×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 18×
• Lightning v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-26· cited 17×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-03· cited 13×
• Bush v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-01· cited 6×