Porter v. State

Blackburn, Judge.

These are two appeals from the convictions of four co-defendants for trafficking in cocaine. In the case of Porter v. State, Case No. A93A0151, three co-defendants, Porter, Lott, and Hutcheson, appeal their convictions. In Strickland v. State, Case No. A93A0152, Strickland appeals his conviction. We combined the cases because all four co-defendants were tried together and raise substantially the same issues on appeal.1

The evidence used against the defendants was obtained as a result of two investigative warrants, issued by the Gwinnett Superior Court, which authorized a wire…