284 Ga. App. 520 - Forbes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 2017
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Collins · Campbell v. State · Gosha v. State · 260 Ga. App. 540 - Pollard v. State
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“Under OCGA § 16-1-6 (1), two offenses will merge as a matter of fact if one of them is established by proof of the same or less than all the facts required to prove the other. As with any factual merger question, the dispositive issue is whether the State “used up” its evidence in proving the crime [.] The actual evidence test, in effect, means that if the [S]tate uses up all the evidence that the defendant committed one crime in establishing another crime, the former crime is included in the latter as a matter of fact under OCGA§ 16-1-6 (1).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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