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Traylor v. State

Citations

  • 627 S.E.2d 594
  • 280 Ga. 400
  • 2006 Fulton County D. Rep. 726
  • 2006 Ga. LEXIS 161

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  • holding that when a defendant raises for the first time in a motion for new trial a substantive due process claim based on his alleged incompetency at the time of his trial, he must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he was in fact incompetent at that time
  • stating that the fact that the victim \may have owned or carried a handgun prior to the fatal shooting does not tend to prove that he had a handgun on his person and intended to use it against\ the defendant
  • remanding for retrospective competency hearing at which defendant was to “have the burden to show incompetency by a preponderance of the evidence”

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Judges: Hines, Carley, Thompson, Melton

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