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Whiting v. State

Citations

  • 296 Ga. 429
  • 768 S.E.2d 448
  • 2015 Ga. LEXIS 21

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  • no plain error resulted from trial court’s failure to charge jury on proximate cause where jury instructions, read as whole, properly instructed the jury on the issue of felony murder causation
  • no reversible error — plain or otherwise — with regard to jury charge where trial court read indictment to jury, and fully and properly instructed on felony murder and parties to crime
  • trial court not required to give separate charge on proximate cause when court’s instructions “adequately informed the jury that Whiting could only be found guilty of felony murder if the conspiracy to conduct the marijuana transaction was the proximate cause of [the victim’s] death”

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Judges: Melton

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