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Georgia Supreme Court Announces New Evidence Code Abrogates Categorical Exclusionary Rule of Mallory

Loaded on July 17, 2019 by Douglas Ankney published in Criminal Legal News August, 2019, page 32
Location: Georgia.

by Douglas Ankney

On May 6, 2019, the Supreme Court of Georgia held that the categorical exclusionary rule first announced in Mallory v. State, 409 S.E.2d 839 (Ga. 1991), is no longer the law in Georgia because the rule was abrogated by the “new” evidence code that took ...

 

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