Sultana Ferguson v. Great American Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that two post-incision autopsy photographs, including a close-up photograph detailing the victim’s injuries, “were not more prejudicial than probative” under OCGA § 24-4-403
• noting that we review a ruling under the rule of completeness for abuse of discretion
• Rule of Completeness “permits introduction only of additional material that is relevant and is necessary to qualify, explain, or place into context the portion already introduced”
• Rule of Completeness “permits introduction only of additional material that is relevant and is necessary to qualify, explain, or place into context the portion already introduced”
• pursuant to the “rule of completeness,” if “part of a conversation is introduced, all that is said in the same conversation which is relevant to the issue should be admitted” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “A trial court’s refusal to give a jury charge in the exact language requested by a defendant is not error if the charge given by the trial court substantially covers the applicable principles of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).