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Tanner v. State

Citations

  • 533 S.E.2d 794
  • 243 Ga. App. 640
  • 2000 Fulton County D. Rep. 2204
  • 2000 Ga. App. LEXIS 504

How courts have described this case

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

  • lapse of ten years does not automatically invalidate similarity between two incidents of drug possession
  • “error alone is not automatically grounds for a new trial but is subject to scrutiny for harmless error”
  • any error in admitting similar transaction evidence harmless “in light of the eyewitness testimony by the police officer who saw the cocaine fall out of [the defendant’s] pocket”
  • “[o]n the question of similarity, the trial court’s findings will not be disturbed unless clearly erroneous”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Blackburn, Eldridge, Barnes

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