Legal Opinion
Greene v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 5, 2018No. S17A1349PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MELTON, Presiding Justice.
Following a jury trial, Eddieard Konte Greene was found guilty of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and various other offenses in connection with the shooting deaths of Freddie Jackson and Laura Dowdy and the shooting of Kendra Hays.1
*335On appeal, Greene contends that the trial court erred in allowing certain statements of one of the deceased victims, Dowdy, to be admitted into evidence at trial under the forfeiture-by-wrongdoing exception to the rule against hearsay (see OCGA § 24-8-804 (b) (5) of Georgia's new Evidence Code); and that the State…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Napue v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Davis v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
- Malcolm v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
- Dixon v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2017
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3Cited by4 opinions
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