263 Ga. App. 122 - Sapp v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
April 2013
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Hines v. State · Kennebrew v. State · 244 Ga. App. 128 - Johnson v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[w]here the defendant cannot show evidence of a deal or any hope of a deal between the witness and the State, the trial court does not err in prohibiting the defendant from impeaching the witness with impermissible character evidence. [Cit.] In this specific case, even if we assume that the dead-docketed charge[ ] against [Johnson was] still “pending” at the time of [Colzie’s] trial, there was still no evidence of any deal or potential deal between [Johnson] and the State in exchange for his testimony against [Colzie].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colzie v. State“Indeed, the fact that [the witness] gave his statement implicating Sapp to police prior to the existence of any drug charges against [the witness] rebuts the notion that his testimony was somehow shaded by a deal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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