Legal Opinion
Slater v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided February 19, 1988No. 75646PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Beasley, Judge.
Convicted of possession of a weapon by an inmate, OCGA § 42-5-63, defendant appealed to the Supreme Court which transferred the case here.
1. Defendant enumerates as error the exclusion of evidence tending to establish that the State engaged in selective prosecution by indicting him but not others who had committed the same offense.
“Whether to prosecute and what charge to bring before a grand jury are decisions that generally rest in the prosecutor’s discretion.” Lee v. State, 177 Ga. App. 698, 700 (1) (340 SE2d 658) (1986). See Noeske v. State, 181 Ga. App. 778, 779 (1) (353…
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