340 Ga. App. 96 - Laster v. the State’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
February 2020
most recently cited
23 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Johnson v. State · Woodard v. State · Harris v. State · Franks v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“On appeal from a criminal conviction, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to support the jury's verdict, and the defendant no longer enjoys a presumption of innocence. We do not weigh the evidence or judge the credibility of the witnesses, but determine only whether the evidence authorized the jury to find the defendant guilty of the crimes beyond a reasonable doubt in accordance with the standard set forth in Jackson v. Virginia , 443 U.S. 307 , 99 S.Ct. 2781 , 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he offense at issue here, however-despite its denomination a 'sexual' battery-does not require any sexual contact at all. Rather, ... it involves non-consensual, intentional physical contact with a victim's intimate body parts. That an individual is legally incapable of consenting to sexual contact does not necessarily mean that such individual is legally incapable of consenting to physical contact with her intimate body parts.... We decline to construe the sexual battery statute in a manner that would criminalize a wide range of apparently innocent conduct. Instead, we construe the statute to require actual proof of the victim's lack of consent, regardless of the victim's age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A statement made by a child under the age of 14 years describing any act of sexual contact ... performed with or on the child by another ... is admissible in evidence by the testimony of the person or persons to whom made if the child is available to testify in the proceedings and the court finds that the circumstances of the statement provide sufficient indicia of reliability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nguyen v. State
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