Woods v. State

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• concluding that details of prior arrest were admissible as similar transaction evidence where such involved circumstances similar to those giving rise to defendant’s theft charges, even though defendant was never prosecuted for prior arrest
• concluding that details of prior crime were admissible as similar transaction evidence where prior crime involved circumstances similar to those giving rise to defendant’s current theft charges, even though defendant had not been prosecuted for prior crime
• brief investigative stop and pat-down justified by reasonable, articulable suspicion where defendant was looking into vehicles in area where there had been a spate of break-ins
• brief investigative stop and pat-down justified by reasonable, articulable suspicion where defendant was looking into vehicles in area where there had been a spate of break-ins
• defendant’s peering into parked car in mall parking lot where there had been a rash of vehicle break-ins, combined with inadequacy of his explanation to police for his suspicious conduct, authorized pat-down search for weapons
• offense of entering automobile with intent to commit theft merged into theft by taking charge where facts used to establish theft of computer from victim’s vehicle were also used to establish unlawful entry into the vehicle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-21· cited 36×
• Mattox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-08-16· cited 17×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-01-21· cited 12×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-02-11· cited 9×
• Parnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-30· cited 8×
• Whitman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-01· cited 7×
• Lester v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-08-28· cited 5×
• Neslein v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-11-05· cited 5×
• Mwangi v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-23· cited 2×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-08· cited 2×
• Bishop v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-15· cited 1×
• Ulysses Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-01
• Bernard Mwangi v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-23
• Ricky Whitman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-01
• Kelvin Lanier Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-08

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Collier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-18· cited 23×
• Dawson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-01-06· cited 22×
• Standfill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-27· cited 12×
• Landers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-16· cited 11×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-08-30· cited 11×
• Jimenez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-09-10· cited 4×