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State v. Owens

Citations

  • 296 Ga. 205
  • 766 S.E.2d 66
  • 2014 Ga. LEXIS 909

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that felony murder and felony involuntary manslaughter were mutually exclusive and remanding for a new trial
  • stating that “[a] judgment entered on mutually exclusive verdicts is void” without explaining why such an error renders the judgment void rather than merely erroneous
  • deciding the State’s appeal where the defendant was found guilty of murder counts and the State challenged the trial court’s judgment convicting and sentencing the defendant for lesser offenses
  • “[T]he remedy for a judgment entered on convictions based on mutually exclusive verdicts is to reverse the judgment, set aside the verdicts at issue, and remand for a new trial.”

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Judges: Benham, Nahmias, Blackwell

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