(DOWNLOAD) "Hopper v. State" by The Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia Fourth Division " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Hopper v. State
- Author : The Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia Fourth Division
- Release Date : January 30, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
Description
A jury found Michael Hopper guilty of two counts of child molestation and two counts of aggravated child molestation. On appeal, Hopper challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. Hopper also contends that the trial court should not have allowed the State to introduce evidence of a similar transaction and that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. Hopper's claims of error lack merit, and we affirm. ""On appeal from his criminal convictions, [Hopper] no longer enjoys the presumption of innocence, and we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the jury's verdict."" 1 So viewed, the evidence demonstrates that, while divorced from his wife in 1999, Hopper pled guilty to two counts of child molestation. On one occasion, Hopper placed his hand under the shorts of his six-year-old niece and fondled her vagina over her underwear. On the other, he placed his hands on her buttocks. Hopper admitted to an investigator that he fondled his niece's vagina, but he could not recall whether he placed his hands on her buttocks because he was intoxicated.