Atkins v. Georgia
Annotate this CaseThe Court of Appeals affirmed Jerome Atkins’s convictions for statutory rape and aggravated child molestation. Thereafter, the Georgia Supreme Court granted certiorari and posed the following two questions: (1) whether a victim’s prior statements can constitute sufficient corroboration under OCGA 16-6-3; and (2) whether the defendant was properly prohibited under OCGA 24-4-412 from seeking testimony regarding the sexual activity that was at issue in the trial. The Court found a victim’s prior statements cannot constitute sufficient corroboration under OCGA 16-6-3. With respect to the second question, the Court determined, after a close review of the record, Atkins was “in essence, asking to conduct a fishing expedition regarding the identity of all of the victim’s sex partners, and the trial court properly did not allow him to do so.”
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