Legal Opinion
Pitts v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 11, 1984No. 41392PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Weltner, Justice.
Carlton Pitts shot and killed Lewis Harris with a shotgun. He appeals his conviction of murder and sentence to life imprisonment.
1. Pitts’ first enumeration of error is that the trial court barred him from access to juvenile court records of four key prosecution witnesses, in violation of Davis v. Alaska, 415 U. S. 308 (94 SC 1105, 39 LE2d 347) (1974).
Pitts filed a “motion for disclosure of impeaching information” requesting that the state “make inquiry and disclose . . . any and all records and information regarding felony convictions or guilty verdicts attributable to each…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Davis v. AlaskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Manson v. BrathwaiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1983
- Hines v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1982
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Pitts v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1985
- Tew v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1986
- Armstrong v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1994
- Patterson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2008
- Scully v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1987
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