Phillips v. State

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• holding that the evidence was sufficient to support tampering-with-evidence charge when, inter alia , the defendant was the only person in the kitchen at the time the warrant was executed and a plastic bag containing cocaine residue was placed in the garbage disposal
• holding that the evidence was sufficient to support tampering-with-evidence charge when, inter alia, the defendant was the only person in the kitchen at the time the warrant was executed and a plastic bag containing cocaine residue was placed in the garbage disposal
• allowing jury inference of intent to prevent apprehension or obstruct prosecution, despite acquittal on possession charge
• allowing jury inference of intent to prevent apprehension or obstruct prosecution, despite acquittal on possession charge
• upholding a tampering conviction despite the defendant's acquittal of drug possession, where the only evidence remaining of the defendant's possession was a piece of a plastic bag covered with cocaine residue police found after dismantling the defendant's garbage disposal unit
• evidence sufficient to support tampering with evidence charge where plastic bag with cocaine residue was placed in garbage disposal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 85×
• State v. Radosevich
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2018-04-12· cited 50×
• Demetrios v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-10-24· cited 45×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-09-28· cited 41×
• State v. Jackson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2010-07-23· cited 35×
• State v. Jackson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2010-06-23· cited 27×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-04-15· cited 14×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-09· cited 10×
• Kirchner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 8×
• Webb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-04-12· cited 7×
• Elkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 4×
• State v. Allen
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2023-02-06· cited 1×
• Shala King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-09
• Debbie Kirchner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-17
• Karimah Elkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Kovacs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-31· cited 52×