Legal Opinion
Steele v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided June 24, 2016No. A16A0617PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MCMILLIAN, Judge.
A jury convicted Calvin Sydney Steele III of one count of statutory rape and one count of child molestation.1 Steele appeals following the trial court’s denial of his motion for new trial, asserting that the trial court erred in admitting (1) his statement to police, (2) DNA evidence, and (3) evidence of his prior conviction for statutory rape. We affirm for the reasons set forth below.
Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence at trial showed that in or around August and September 2012, after engaging in communications of a sexual nature on Facebook with…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Olds v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2016
- State v. JonesSupreme Court of Georgia · 2015
- Philmore v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
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