259 Ga. App. 74 - Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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23 state decisions

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1. “Severance is required if offenses are joined solely because they are similar in nature. Severance is not mandated, however, where the similarity of the offenses is coupled with evidence of a pattern which shows a common motive, plan, scheme, or bent of mind. Where the modus operandi of the perpetrator is so strikingly alike, that the totality of the facts unerringly demonstrate and designate the defendant as the common perpetrator, the offenses may be joined—subject to the right of the defendant to severance in the interests of justice. Severance in this particular kind of circumstance lies within the sound discretion of the trial judge.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 266 Ga. App. 274 - Mealor v. State

2. “Child molestation advances to aggravated child molestation with the addition of either physical injury to the child or sodomy. Sodomy, in turn, is defined as `any sexual act involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another.' [OCGA § 16-6-2(a).]”

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

3. “[W]hen the evidence shows completion only of the greater offense, it is unnecessary for the trial court to charge on the lesser offense.”

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