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Bonner v. State

Defendant's guilty plea to theft by receiving a stolen vehicle barred his subsequent prosecution for hijacking the same motor vehicle, as the charges were mutually exclusive.

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Keshaun Jaemer Bonner was indicted in Fulton County on charges of armed robbery, hijacking of a motor vehicle, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony in connection with an alleged taking of a car on April 3, 2014. Bonner appeals the trial court’s denial of his plea in bar and motion to dismiss this indictment based on double jeopardy and collateral estoppel, asserting that he previously pled guilty in Clayton County to a felony charge of theft by receiving stolen property involving the same car on the same day.1

Bonner was indicted on the Fulton County charges on April 11, 2014, and the Clayton County charges were asserted in an accusation dated August 8, 2014.2 Bonner pled guilty to the Clayton County accusation four months later, on December 8, 2014, while the Fulton County charges remained pending. In reciting the factual basis for the charge of felony theft by receiving during Bonner’s guilty plea hearing, the prosecutor stated that she expected the evidence to show that on April 3, 2014, Bonner was in possession of a stolen car, which was the property of another, which he knew or should have known was stolen. The trial court sentenced Bonner to a total of eight years, with twelve months to serve,3 on the felony charge of theft by receiving in this case, along with another felony offense of theft by receiving charged in a separate indictment to which Bonner also pled guilty.4

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