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Prater v. State

Citations

  • 545 S.E.2d 864
  • 273 Ga. 477

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “[P]rocedural Double Jeopardy protections . . . forbid the State from prosecuting in a second action crimes that were omitted from the first prosecution.”
  • “Alesser or greater included offense is treated as the same offense for double jeopardy purposes.”
  • “Offenses arising from the same conduct, within the jurisdiction of a single court, must be prosecuted in a single action”
  • “The distinguishing characteristic of an armed robbery is the taking of another’s property by the use of force or intimida- tion.”
  • unless a jury is charged on a particular crime, no verdict may be rendered on that crime
  • reversal of conviction for felony murder based on armed robbery barred retrial on the lesser included offense of attempt to commit armed robbery

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Judges: Sears, Fletcher, Hunstein, Thompson, Benham, Carley, Hines

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