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Jordan v. State

Citations

  • 477 S.E.2d 583
  • 223 Ga. App. 176
  • 96 Fulton County D. Rep. 3507
  • 1996 Ga. App. LEXIS 1042

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  • chain of custody established even though arresting officer’s description differed from the forensic toxicologist’s description of the urine sample’s packaging
  • chain of custody established even though arresting officer's description differed from the forensic toxicologist's description of the urine sample's packaging
  • chain of custody established even though arresting officer’s description differed from the forensic toxicologist’s description of the urine sample’s packaging
  • “Where possible, effect is to be given to all the words of a statute, and it is firmly established that courts should not interpret a statute so as to render parts of it surplusage or meaningless.”

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Judges: Eldridge, McMurray, Johnson

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