168 Ga. App. 598 - McCoy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
January 1992
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
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Relies on Croker v. Smith
Most-quoted passages
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“The position adopted by the [S]tate at the sentencing hearing was that the offenses charged in the indictment for which [Sears] was on trial could be considered in determining his status as a recidivist. . . . [T]his argument . .. was clearly erroneous. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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