Publication Date: 2015-10-21
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Bonner Jr. and Genevieve Holmes Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Deborah D. Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Michael A. Oldham, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S15A0747
The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting into evidence a handgun investigators found near the defendant at the time of his arrest, since the gun was evidence of the circumstances su