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Wingate v. State

Citations

  • 296 Ga. 21
  • 764 S.E.2d 833
  • 2014 Ga. LEXIS 810

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  • finding where there is an illegal seizure that caused defendant to abandon drugs in a high school office, the drugs were inadmissible as the product of the illegal seizure
  • finding where there is an illegal seizure that caused defendant to abandon drugs in a high school office, the drugs were inadmissible as the product of the illegal seizure
  • “Because [defendant] was unlawfully detained at the time he apparently discarded the marijuana, the marijuana was the product of an unlawful seizure.”
  • regardless of whether defendant’s trial counsel was deficient for failing to call a witness at trial, there was no reasonable probability it would have led to a different outcome at trial so defendant’s claim for ineffective assistance of trial counsel failed

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Judges: Nahmias

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