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· 12/1/2004

Shaheed v. State

Citations

  • 607 S.E.2d 897
  • 270 Ga. App. 709
  • 2004 Fulton County D. Rep. 3922
  • 2004 Ga. App. LEXIS 1583

How courts have described this case

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

  • Proving that a driver is impaired to the extent that it is less safe for the person to drive “requires proof of impaired driving ability, but not an actual unsafe act.”
  • conviction reversed where there was no evidence that the defendant’s driving was impaired as a result of his ingesting alcohol
  • “ ‘Because individual responses to alcohol vary, the presence of alcohol in a defendant’s body, by itself, does not support an inference that the defendant was an impaired driver’ ”

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Judges: Eldridge, Blackburn, Miller

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