297 Ga. App. 664 - Cotton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 2011
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 270 Ga. App. 432 - Poole v. State · 293 Ga. App. 297 - Hamilton v. State · 285 Ga. App. 568 - Rogers v. State · 273 Ga. App. 735 - Murrell v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) the evidence will be admitted for a proper purpose; (2) sufficient evidence establishes that the defendant committed the independent act; and (3) sufficient connection or similarity exists between the independent offense and the crime charged, so that proof of the former tends to prove the latter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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