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Aldridge v. State

Citations

  • 515 S.E.2d 397
  • 237 Ga. App. 209
  • 99 Fulton County D. Rep. 1408
  • 1999 Ga. App. LEXIS 117

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that defendant’s booking photo “was relevant as some evidence of his intoxication”
  • raising evidentiary arguments for the first time in a motion for new trial is too late and does not preserve the issue for appellate review
  • raising arguments for the first time in a motion for new trial is too late and does not preserve the issue for appellate review
  • presenting documents’ contents to the jury was equivalent of formal tender of evidence that would divest defendant of the right to open and close final arguments
  • defense counsel had witness read highlighted portions of arrest report into evidence and thereby lost opportunity to open and close
  • where jury finds presence of drugs in defendant’s body, it may “infer that [the defendant] previously possessed the drugs ingested”

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Judges: Pope, Beasley, Ruffin

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