Opinion ID: 1245492
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Letter from District Attorney

Text: Waldrip argues the State suppressed a letter from the District Attorney and an Assistant District Attorney addressed to the Superior Courts Sentence Review Panel that outlined John Mark Waldrip's criminal history, including his involvement in various crimes with Robert Garner, and urged the panel to refuse to reduce John Mark Waldrip's dual life sentences for two armed robberies that occurred fifteen months before the murder of Keith Evans, the victim in the instant case. This letter is the written hearsay statement of its author, and Waldrip has failed to show how it could have been used at trial as admissible evidence or what specific admissible evidence it would have led to. See Bridges, supra, 279 Ga. at 354-355, n. 12, 613 S.E.2d 621; Roebuck, supra, 277 Ga. at 204, 586 S.E.2d 651 (noting Georgia's long-standing rule that inadmissible hearsay lacks probative value even though the opposing party does not object to its introduction). We also find no merit to Waldrip's contentions that his trial counsel's cross-examination of Robert Garner would have been meaningfully improved if counsel had been aware of the letter.