Legal Opinion

Suits v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided November 23, 1998No. S98A1193PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Sears, Justice.

The appellant, Marcus Suits, appeals from his conviction for malice murder stemming from the death of Melinda Garrett and from his conviction for possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. On appeal, Suits raises numerous issues, including that the trial court erred in admitting hearsay, and erred in permitting the medical examiner to testify that the cause of death was a homicide and not a suicide. With regard to Suits’s contentions, we conclude that all but two of them are without merit, and that, as for those two contentions, if any error occurred, it was…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Edge v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1992
  3. Chapel v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1998
  4. Maxwell v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1992
  5. Roper v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Clark v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1999
  2. Givens v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2001
  3. Phillips v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2002
  4. Holmes v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1999
  5. Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2013

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