· 8/23/2010
Tauch v. State
Citations
- 700 S.E.2d 645
- 305 Ga. App. 643
- 2010 Fulton County D. Rep. 2855
- 2010 Ga. App. LEXIS 778
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the jury was entitled to consider a defendant’s flight from officers as evidence of his guilt
- concluding that the evidence was sufficient to convict of fleeing and attempting to elude where officers engaged in a “high-speed chase” in “clearly marked” patrol vehicles “with their emergency lights and sirens activated”
- upholding a defendant's convictions on two counts of attempting to elude a police officer based on a single police chase involving two police vehicles
- upholding a defendant’s convictions on two counts of attempting to elude a police officer based on a single police chase involving two police vehicles
- “The fact that a suspect flees the scene of a crime points to the question of guilt in a circumstantial manner. . . .”
- “the jury was authorized to consider [the defendant’s] flight from the scene and police as circumstantial evidence of his guilt”
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Judges: Miller, Phipps, Johnson
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