237 Ga. App. 746 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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1. “In those circumstances where the omission is clearly harmful as a matter of law in that it fails to provide the jury with the proper guidelines for determining guilt or innocence, this Court will consider and review the charge even though there was no timely objection in the trial court ... the evidence was not overwhelming and Jackson's only defense was self-defense. The State countered this by claiming Jackson should have run away. Failure to charge the jury on lack of duty to retreat was clearly harmful and erroneous as a matter of law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Patton v. State · 299 Ga. App. 515 - Buggle v. State

2. “Glover holds that one who is free from fault may, without retreating, take human life and be justifiable, if the circumstances are sufficient to excite the fears of a reasonable man that a felonious assault is about to be made upon him, and the slayer, who is free from blame, acts under the influence of such fears, with the bona fide purpose of preventing the felony from being committed upon him. Glover, supra at 598-599 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 255 Ga. App. 339 - Biswas v. State · 299 Ga. App. 515 - Buggle v. State

3. “Did it ever occur to you that all you had to do was run away from an unarmed man?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Patton v. State