Lopez v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed Lopez's conviction, holding that the trial court did not err in admitting the victim’s dying statements as excited utterances, that the residual hearsay exception justified admission of statements about drug sales and debt, and that the admission of a cumulative statement about the debt was not plain error. The Court applied an abuse‑of‑discretion standard to the hearsay rulings and a plain‑error standard to the cumulative testimony.