Sanborn v. Doe

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “trial counsel’s performance cannot be deemed deficient for not raising an unsettled question of law”
• stating that “[t]he limitations and prohibition on ‘other acts’ evidence set out in OCGA § 24-4-404 (b) do not apply to intrinsic evidence” (punctuation and footnote omitted)
• rejecting ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on failure to seek a continuance to interview a witness where defendant failed to show what evidence further investigation would have uncovered
• “The limitations and prohibition on ‘other acts’ evidence set out in [Rule 404 (b)] do not apply to intrinsic evidence.” (citations and punctuation omitted)
• statements made by defendant in response to questioning by an emergency room nurse not subject to Miranda
• prior act helped explain to jury, among other things, why a victim refused the defendant’s advances and the motive for the victim to end her relationship with the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).