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Milton v. State

Citations

  • 503 S.E.2d 566
  • 232 Ga. App. 672
  • 98 Fulton County D. Rep. 2273
  • 1998 Ga. App. LEXIS 784

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  • no due-process violation when defendant could use comparable evidence and no showing of bad-faith destruction
  • entry of plea of guilty showed defendant was perpetrator of independent crime
  • “Knowledge or scienter may be proved, like any other fact, by circumstantial evidence”
  • “In dealing with the failure of the state to preserve evidence which might have exonerated the defendant, a court must determine both whether the evidence was material and whether the police acted in bad faith in failing to preserve the evidence.”

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Judges: Ruffin, Pope, Beasley

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