266 Ga. App. 82 - Perez v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “A manifest necessity exists when the defendant’s right to have the trial completed must be subordinated to the public interest in affording the prosecutor a fair opportunity to present evidence to an impartial jury, and the ends of substantial justice cannot be attained without discontinuing the trial.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 298 Ga. App. 322 - Birdsong v. State · 304 Ga. App. 529 - Bellew v. State

2. “Atrial judge has acted within his sound discretion in rejecting possible alternatives and in granting a mistrial, if reasonable judges could differ about the proper disposition, even though in a strict, literal sense, the mistrial is not necessary. This great deference means that the availability of another alternative does not without more render a mistrial order an abuse of sound discretion. Deference to the judge’s sound discretion also precludes a reviewing court from assuming, in the absence of record evidence, that the trial judge deprived a defendant of constitutional rights.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 287 Ga. App. 839 - McGee v. State