Legal Opinion

BURNS v. the STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided April 19, 2018No. A18A0227PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Per curiam

This appeal arose from a granted application for interlocutory review wherein James Phillips Burns challenged the trial court's grant of the State's motion in limine to exclude evidence that the alleged victim had previously made a false accusation of sexual abuse against another individual. Because we conclude that the trial court erred, we reverse the trial court's order granting the motion in limine and remand the case.

*426 The record shows that in December 2015, Burns's wife discovered that her daughter, Burns's stepdaughter, had sent a friend a one-paragraph Twitter message about a sexual…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Davis v. AlaskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  2. Olden v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1988
  3. Olds v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2016
  4. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1989
  5. Benton v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1995

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. State v. BurnsSupreme Court of Georgia · 2019
  2. State v. BurnsSupreme Court of Georgia · 2019
  3. Gallegos-Munoz v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2024

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