230 Ga. App. 773 - Autry v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “Photographs which are relevant to any issue in the case are admissible although they will have an effect upon the jury which the defendant feels is damaging to him; jurors are generally deemed to have normal common sense, and in these cases, on these records, we do not well receive the suggestion that the jury will convict a defendant of a crime merely because they have seen the true extent of the victim’s injuries. Photographs showing a severely injured victim may, however gruesome, be relevant to the trial of her alleged assailant and they are not objectionable merely because there is other evidence of the severity of those injuries.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 Ga. App. 628 - Maxwell v. State

2. “To be entitled to a severance, the appellant must have made a clear showing of prejudice resulting from joinder of these trials amounting to denial of due process, rather than the mere possibility that a separate trial would improve appellant’s chance of acquittal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 242 Ga. App. 334 - Cox v. State