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PAYNE v. STATE

No. S08G1267.

674 S.E.2d 298 (2009)

PAYNE v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

March 9, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Steel, Atlanta, for appellant.

David McDade, District Attorney, James E. Barker, James A. Dooley, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.

THOMPSON, Justice.

We granted a petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals to consider whether the Court of Appeals erred in Division 3 of Payne v. State, 290 Ga.App. 589, 660 S.E.2d 405 (2008), by affirming the trial court's admission of similar transaction evidence in this case. Because the Court of Appeals correctly decided that evidence of Payne's prior rape of an adult woman was sufficiently similar to the...

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