Opinion ID: 1245492
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Alleged Misconduct by Law Enforcement Officers

Text: Waldrip argues that the State suppressed information about an investigator who, in a completely unrelated case, acted improperly in order to allow a GBI agent's sister to avoid a conviction for DUI. The habeas court properly relied on this Court's decision in Pruitt v. State, 270 Ga. 745(21), 514 S.E.2d 639 (1999), which involved this same incident of misconduct, to hold that evidence of this unrelated misconduct could not have been used as evidence, including impeachment evidence, at Waldrip's trial. Accordingly, Waldrip has shown no prejudice in support of his overall evidence suppression claim or in support of his attempt to overcome the procedural default to that claim.