241 Ga. App. 32 - Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “Evans threatened that he was going to get a gun and shoot [the officer], and [the officer] felt threatened. But more importantly, Evans made a statement which under the circumstances was plainly designed to goad or incite the only officer present who was trying to handle a difficult situation involving several people. A rational juror could find that the statement was disrespectful of, directly challenged, and abused [the security officer's] authority. [The security officer] was a corporal with Six Flags Security and had been in the position for only one and one-half months. The fact that Evans did not get [the officer] to react is not determinative.”

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

2. “A person commits the offense of disorderly conduct when such person ... [w]ithout provocation, uses to or of another person in such other person’s presence, opprobrious or abusive words which by their very utterance tend to incite to an immediate breach of the peace, that is to say, words which as a matter of common knowledge and under ordinary circumstances will, when used to or of another person in such other person’s presence, naturally tend to provoke violent resentment, that is, words commonly called “fighting words.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 267 Ga. App. 377 - Delaney v. State

3. “A variance in proof from that alleged in the indictment is only fatal if two crucial requirements are not met. These are (1) that the accused be definitely informed as to the charges against him, so that he is able to present his defense, and (2) that he may be protected against another prosecution for the same offense. 3”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 257 Ga. App. 350 - Thomas v. State