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Williams v. State

Citations

  • 491 S.E.2d 377
  • 268 Ga. 488
  • 97 Fulton County D. Rep. 3768
  • 1997 Ga. LEXIS 650

How courts have described this case

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  • connecting defendant with an irrelevant “theft ring” insufficient without more to establish intent to provoke a mistrial
  • retrial is not prohibited where reversal is due to trial error rather than the sufficiency of the evidence
  • retrial is not prohibited where reversal is due to trial error rather than the sufficiency of the evidence
  • failure to show that, by introducing the contested evidence, the state intended to abort the prosecution authorized trial court to conclude that retrial of the defendant was not barred

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Judges: Sears

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