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Thompson v. State

Citations

  • 330 S.E.2d 348
  • 254 Ga. 393
  • 1985 Ga. LEXIS 731

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that partner of part-time state court solicitor was not automatically disqualified from representing criminal defendants in superior court
  • adopting case-by-case rule for conflicts of interest involving part-time state court solicitors
  • “an actual conflict of interest must be shown in order that a partner or associate of a part-time solicitor of a state court be disqualified from representation of a defendant in a criminal case before a superior court”
  • deferring to legislative judgment in enacting sentencing scheme
  • application of Sistrunk limited to civil cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Gregory, Hill, Weltner

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