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Supreme Court of Georgia· 4/15/2002

State v. Thomas

Citations

  • 562 S.E.2d 501
  • 275 Ga. 167
  • 2002 Fulton County D. Rep. 1163
  • 2002 Ga. LEXIS 320

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  • stating that “[a] trial court’s findings of fact will not be deemed to be clearly erroneous if there is any evidence to support them” and holding that “the trial court’s findings were authorized by the evidence in the record and are not clearly erroneous”
  • where prosecutor stood to gain by aborting trial because expert’s testimony favorable to defendant, record established prosecutor intended to goad defendant into moving for mistrial; double jeopardy bars retrial
  • double jeopardy principles barred retrial where “the prosecutor did not seek curative instructions, or assert that the trial should continue[.]”
  • the trial court’s personal knowledge of the prosecutor’s integrity is relevant but not controlling
  • although trial court’s personal knowledge of the prosecutor caused it to believe him, the trial court nevertheless specifically found, based on the objective facts and circumstances, that the prosecutor intended to goad the defendant into moving for a mistrial
  • although trial court's personal knowledge of the prosecutor caused it to believe him, the trial court nevertheless specifically found, based on the objective facts and circumstances, that the prosecutor intended to goad the defendant into moving for a mistrial

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Judges: Carley, Hunstein, Thompson

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