Legal Opinion
Wiggins v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 30, 2006No. S05G1215PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Thompson, Justice.
The question for decision in this granted certiorari is whether a police officer, who was indicted and charged with false writings and statements, and the violation of his oath as a public officer, should have been afforded the rights of notice and the opportunity to appear before the grand jury pursuant to OCGA §§ 17-7-52 and 45-11-4. The facts that give rise to this question are set forth at length in the opinion of the Court of Appeals. We summarize them as follows:
Wiggins, a police officer, was dispatched to a hotel where six people, including the sixteen-year-old…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Selvester v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Tooke v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1908
- Morrill v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1995
- Lee v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1942
- State v. LockettCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2003
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Wiggins v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2010
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Georgia · 2010
- Yancey v. the StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2017
- Higdon v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2012
- ROWLAND v. the STATE.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2019
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