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← 190 GAAPP 539 - Samuel v. State

Samuel v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Burks v. United States · Williams v. State · Robinson v. State · 187 Ga. App. 239 - Price v. State

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “[t]he general rule is that retrial of the defendant is not barred where reversal of the conviction results from trial error rather than evidentiary insufficiency. Williams v. State , 258 Ga. 305 , 311, 369 S.E.2d 232 (1988). Reversal based upon a faulty or flawed indictment is a reversal based upon "trial error." Burks v. United States , 437 U.S. 1 , 13-14 [ 98 S.Ct. 2141 , 57 L.Ed.2d 1 ] (1978).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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