162 Ga. App. 415 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hawes v. State · Gaines v. State · 135 Ga. App. 243 - Land v. McClure · 125 Ga. App. 210 - Warestores, Inc. v. Nash · 126 Ga. App. 557 - Johnson v. Public Finance Corp.
Most-quoted passages
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“Two residents of the area who had proceeded to the scene immediately upon hearing the crash testified that they overheard an unidentified black male in the crowd of onlookers remark that the driver of the abandoned vehicle was Hosea Williams. A third such resident testified that he heard an unknown declarant state that the driver had been wearing a flowered shirt and “looked like” Hosea Williams.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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