Legal Opinion

Mondragon v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided January 22, 2019No. S18A1040PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Blackwell, Justice.

**843Juan Cortez Mondragon was tried by a DeKalb County jury and convicted of the murder of Carlos Perez and an aggravated assault upon Heriberto Soto. Mondragon appeals, claiming that the trial court erred when it admitted evidence of Perez's good character and when it excluded evidence of Perez's blood alcohol content at the time he was killed. We find no reversible error and affirm.1

**8441. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdicts, the evidence shows that Perez and Soto went to the Chicken Plaza restaurant on Shallowford Road in DeKalb County on the afternoon…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Malcolm v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
  3. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2016
  4. Mosley v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2016
  5. Revere v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2017

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3Cited by9 opinions

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  5. SGE Mortgage Funding Corp. v. Accent Mortgage Services, Inc. (In Re SGE Mortgage Funding Corp.)United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Georgia · 2003

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