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BLACKWELL v. STATE

No. A97A1832.

496 S.E.2d 922 (1998)

230 Ga. App. 611

BLACKWELL v. The STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

February 16, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter M. Henritze, Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.

Paul L. Howard, District Attorney, Bettienne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

SMITH, Judge.

Linton Blackwell appeals from the trial court's denial of his plea of former jeopardy. We conclude that the trial court correctly denied the plea because neither Blackwell's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the United States Constitution nor his rights under OCGA §§ 16-1-7(b) and 16-1-8 were violated. We therefore affirm the trial court's ruling.

Blackwell was arrested in June 1996 when the van he was driving crashed while...

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