Legal Opinion
Roberts v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 8, 2004No. S04G0219PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENHAM, Justice.
We granted James Earl Roberts’s petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals to determine whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel was applicable in criminal cases and, if it were, whether it could be successfully invoked against the State in this case. We conclude judicial estoppel is not applicable in criminal cases. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals.
Roberts filed a direct appeal to the Court of Appeals from the trial court’s denial of Roberts’s motion for discharge and acquittal based on Georgia’s statutory speedy trial provision,…
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