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Taylor v. State

Citations

  • 830 S.E.2d 90
  • 306 Ga. 277

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the admission of evidence about a prior crime under OCGA § 24-4-404 (b) was harmless, partly because the jury learned that the defendant had been punished for that crime and the trial court gave a limiting instruction about the use of the evidence
  • noting that the fact that a defendant has already been punished for the extrinsic crime meant that “it is less likely that a reasonable juror would have been inclined to punish him again for that crime”
  • explaining that a tolling allegation is a “material allegation”
  • “The test for determining nonconstitutional harmless error is whether it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.”
  • “The test for determining nonconstitutional harmless error is whether it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.”
  • trial court did not clearly err in failing to give more detailed jury instruc- tion when appellant cited no precedent requiring it

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Judges: Benham

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