Rogers v. State

Judge Harold R. Banke.

Donnie T. Rogers was convicted of possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug-related objects. On appeal, he enumerates two errors, both related to the latter count, a misdemeanor. OCGA § 16-13-32.2 (b).

This case arose after Rogers handed a police officer a plastic bag containing a white powdery substance and was arrested. While searching Rogers at the jail, officers discovered a syringe in his right front pants pocket.

The officers disabled and photocopied the syringe, and then destroyed it because the Georgia Crime Lab generally refuses to accept such dangerous…