255 Ga. App. 663 - Sagenich v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “The continuing witness rule has been applied to recordings as well as writings. This Court has held that the rule is violated when, for instance, the trial court sends the videotaped interview of a witness to the jury room, Summage v. State, [ 248 Ga. App. 559, 561 (1) ( 546 SE2d 910 ) (2001)], or allows a defendant’s tape-recorded statement to police to go to the jury room, Fields [v. State, 266 Ga. 241, 243 (2) ( 466 SE2d 202 ) (1996)].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 Ga. App. 29 - Mathews v. State

2. “Documents that are prohibited by the “continuing witness rule” from going out with the jury include answers to written interrogatories, written dying declarations, and signed statements of guilt. These documents, which generally contain their makers’ assertions of purported truths, are ascribed evidentiary value only to the extent that their makers are credible.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 275 Ga. App. 836 - Sims v. State