Jabulani Ayoluwa was found guilty by a Fulton County jury of three counts of armed robbery, hijacking a motor vehicle, two counts of kidnapping, two counts of aggravated assault, and two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, all arising from a series of crimes committed during a two-day period in 1998.1 His motion for new trial was denied, and he appeals, asserting the general grounds and the trial court’s reopening of the evidence. Finding no error, we affirm. 1. In asserting the general grounds, Ayoluwa argues that “the handling of potential witnesses raises serious concerns.” The only argument offered in support of this position is one victim’s testimony that she “wasn’t too certain” in her identification of Ayoluwa, another victim’s testimony that he viewed a photographic lineup from which other victims had already chosen Ayoluwa and initialed the lineup form, and a police officer’s admission that he “made some mistakes” in filling out the lineup forms. From this, Ayoluwa argues that the entire lineup process was “highly suggestive” and that the evidence therefore was not sufficient to convict.
With respect to the photographic lineups, Ayoluwa does not argue that they should have been excluded from evidence, only that they constituted insufficient evidence to support his conviction. While one victim testified at trial that she was only 50 percent certain in her identification of Ayoluwa as one of the two men who robbed her with a shotgun, other evidence supported his conviction on this count. This victim obtained the license number of the robbers’ car, which had been stolen from another robbery victim at the point of a shotgun. When the police stopped this car later the same night, two men “bailed out” of the car and fled. One man, carrying a shotgun, evaded the police, but Ayoluwa was arrested. The victim’s identification taken from her purse by the robbers was found inside the car, along with identification belonging to another robbery victim.
