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BODDIE v. STATE

No. S97A1760.

494 S.E.2d 651 (1998)

269 Ga. 5

BODDIE v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

January 26, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Erie Fanning, Fanning & Hudson, Newnan, for Robert Lee Boddie.

H. Maddox Kilgore, Asst. Atty. Gen., Paula K. Smith, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, Anne Cobb Allen, Asst. Dist. Atty., Carrollton, for the State.

HINES, Justice.

Robert Lee Boddie appeals his conviction for malice murder in connection with the fatal shooting of seventeen-year-old Marcus Anderson.1 Boddie contends that the State was improperly allowed to place his character into evidence, to impeach or bolster the credibility of its own witnesses, and to offer expert ballistics evidence without establishing a chain of custody. For the reasons which follow, we affirm Boddie's murder...

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