Deleon-Alvarez v. State

Phipps, Chief Judge.

At a joint trial in Gwinnett County Superior Court, Jonathan Deleon-Alvarez, Francisco Palacios-Baras, Tito Hernandez and a fourth co-defendant (who is not an appellant in the instant cases) were found guilty by the jury of kidnapping for ransom1 Jose Wilson Tejada on October 11, 2009. The trial court entered judgments of conviction upon the verdicts. Deleon-Alvarez’s, Palacios-Baras’s, and Hernandez’s respective motions for new trial were denied. Discerning no reversible error, we affirm their convictions.

Evidence adduced at trial showed that in early 2009, the Atlanta…