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  • Dublin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-10-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Kenneth Luttrell, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Scott Orion Teague (Department of Law), Atlanta; Leigh Ellen Patterson, Emily Griffin Johnson (Floyd County District Attorney's Office), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A0822

    The trial court did not err in permitting State to introduce certain hearsay evidence at trial, because the challenged evidence was admissible under the co-conspirator exception to the hearsay rule, and consequently, trial counsel was not deficient in failing to object to the admissible of that evidence.