Supreme Court of Georgia· 7/5/2016

Smart v. State

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299 Ga. 414
788 S.E.2d 442
2016 Ga. LEXIS 458

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holding that it was not plain error for the trial court to admit hearsay about prior difficulties from two witnesses, Facebook messages, text messages, and letters written by the victim
holding that evidence regarding prior acts of domestic violence by defendant against victim was admissible under Rule 404 (b) to show defendant’s motive
holding that the trial court’s telling 6 The court had discretion to redact the indictment to remove Harris’s name, see Moss v. State, 298 Ga. 613, 615 (783 SE2d 652) (2016
concluding that because the evidence in question was admissible to show motive, it was not necessary to determine if it was also admissible to show intent or absence of mistake
explaining that “in light of the often-secretive nature of domestic violence,” statements from a murder victim to her friends and family describing acts of domestic violence can be “highly probative”
noting that a domestic-violence victim’s own writings and text messages to family and friends may be “highly probative,” given the “often-secretive nature of domestic violence”

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Judges: Hunstein

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