Reece v. State

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• holding that the trial court erred by excluding defendant’s proffered evidence that neither he nor his wife had contracted an STD after the state had introduced evidence that the victim had contracted the disease after the alleged sexual contact
• overturning the defendant’s conviction because he was not allowed to present evidence that his wife did not have a sexually transmitted disease during the relevant time period
• trial court erroneously excluded proof that defendant’s pregnant wife did not have the sexually transmitted disease the victim sustained
• where evidence implied that defendant had infected victim, it was error to exclude evidence that defendant’s wife did not have the disease during the relevant time frame
• in prosecution for rape, statutory rape, and child molestation, proof that the victim sustained a sexually transmitted disease authorized proof that the accused and his wife did not to rebut the inference that defendant was the perpetrator

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Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mooney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-25· cited 15×
• State v. Pena-Rojas
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2003-05-27· cited 14×
• State v. Ricardo Ozuna, Jr.
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2013-10-07· cited 13×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-07-01· cited 12×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-17· cited 12×
• Tidwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-10-01· cited 12×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-01-10· cited 7×
• Murrell v. Ricks
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-02-27· cited 4×
• Ricks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-03-20· cited 2×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-02-19· cited 14×