Dryden v. State

HINES, Justice.

This Court granted a writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Dryden v. State, 292 Ga. App. 467 (665 SE2d 341) (2008), to review that Court’s ruling that Chanju Dryden could be convicted and sentenced for both aggravated assault on a peace officer and serious injury by vehicle based upon reckless driving. Finding that the verdicts of guilt for the two crimes must be determined mutually exclusive in this case, we reverse.

During a controlled drug buy, Dryden sold illegal drugs in his car outside a gas station. As Dryden began to drive away from the scene, law enforcement…