Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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• affirming trial court’s refusal to merge aggravated assault with intent to rape into rape conviction where aggravated assault involved separate and distinct acts of force
• affirming trial court’s refusal to merge aggravated assault with intent to rape into rape conviction where aggravated assault involved separate and distinct acts of force
• no merger occurred where charge of aggravated assault with intent to rape as indicted and proven involved actions separate and apart from the act of rape
• “[T]he false imprisonment occurred when Williams forced the victim into the prayer room closet after he raped her, bound the closet doors closed with a cord, and ordered the victim under threat of death to remain there until he left.”
• perpetrator raped victim in her home then forced her into a closet, threatened to kill her if she did not stay in the closet, and tied the closet’s doors with a cord
• “[T]he false imprisonment occurred when Williams forced the victim into the prayer room closet after he raped her, bound the closet doors closed with a cord, and ordered the victim under threat of death to remain there until he left.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Chitwood
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-04-05· cited 119×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-01· cited 14×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-01· cited 14×
• Andrews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-02· cited 5×
• Bolden v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-02-18· cited 4×
• United States v. Andrew Jackson Chitwood
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-04-05
• Ronald Bernard Andrews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-02

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 240×
• Felder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-08· cited 63×
• Culver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-16· cited 41×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-05-08· cited 19×
• Chatman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-21· cited 13×
• Maddox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-02-13· cited 7×