Legal Opinion
State v. Kwiatkowski
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided June 2, 1999No. A99A0119PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Andrews, Judge.
Pursuant to OCGA § 5-7-1, the State appeals the trial court’s order suppressing evidence of 27 pounds of marijuana found in appellees’ car. For the following reasons, we affirm.
In reviewing a trial court’s order granting a motion to suppress, we construe the evidence most favorably to uphold the court’s ruling. Mao v. State, 222 Ga. App. 482, 483 (474 SE2d 679) (1996). It is the trial court’s duty to resolve conflicts in the evidence, and its findings of fact and credibility will not be disturbed on appeal unless they are clearly erroneous. Id.
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2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Smith v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1995
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