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Alston v. State

The State presented sufficient evidence of the necessary nexus between the defendants' criminal street gang violations and the crimes of aggravated assault and armed robbery, as the evidence presented at trial overwhelmingly established that the defendants were associated with various divisions of the Bloods street gang.

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Kelton Alston and Chance Perkins were tried together before a jury and each was convicted of aggravated assault, armed robbery, theft by receiving, cruelty to children, criminal street gang activity1 and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. They filed separate motions for new trial, which the trial court denied. Alston and Perkins then filed separate, timely notices of appeal, which were docketed in this Court as A14A1018 and A14A1019, respectively. We consolidated their cases for review and now affirm.

Construed to support the verdict,2 the evidence shows that Alston, Perkins and Quadell Leonard3 traveled from New Jersey to Georgia on March 31, 2009, for a visit. They initially stayed at an apartment on Six Flags Drive with Darien White and his girlfriend, Teranisha Posey, who Perkins claimed was his relative. White testified that appellants and Leonard told him they were members of the Bloods street gang, that they wore red clothing and bandanas as proof of their membership, and that they talked of committing robberies and other crimes to make money to go back to New Jersey.

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