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WORD v. STATE

No. A10A1690.

708 S.E.2d 623 (2011)

WORD v. The STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

March 23, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Mason , for appellant.

Julia Fessenden Slater , Dist. Atty., Wesley A. Lambertus , Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Lathan Word was convicted of armed robbery. The trial court denied Word's motion for new trial, and this appeal followed, with Word asserting as his sole enumeration of error ineffective assistance of trial counsel.1 We find that counsel was ineffective in failing to object to a police officer's comment on the credibility of the victim. We also find that a reasonable probability exists that the result of the trial...

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