Supreme Court of Georgia· 2/4/2019

White v. State

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823 S.E.2d 794
305 Ga. 111

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recognizing that, when faced with conflicting decisions from the Georgia Supreme Court, more recent decisions control
explaining that when discord exists between older and newer precedents of a jurisdiction’s highest court, the more recent decision controls
noting that a high court generally follows its decision in the most recent case \which must have tacitly overruled any truly inconsistent holding\ (citation omitted)
noting that a high court generally follows its decision in the most recent case “which must have tacitly overruled any truly inconsistent holding” (citation and punctuation omitted)
noting that a high court generally follows its decision in the most recent case, “which must have tacitly overruled any truly inconsistent holding” (citation omitted)
holding, inter alia, that Court of Appeals was not authorized to write a relevance exception into the Rape Shield Statute, OCGA § 24-4-412

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Judges: Bethel, Melton

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