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Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 5 de mayo de 2026
Jackson v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó las condenas de un hombre del condado de DeKalb por el asesinato de un niño de nueve meses y otros tiroteos relacionados con pandillas, rechazando impugnaciones a la evidencia, al desempeño de su abogado y al manejo por parte del juez de primera instancia de una solicitud de anulación del juicio.
Agent Thompson testified as an expert in criminal street gangs and street gang activity. 10 As to cell phones, Agent Thomp- son testified that they were being smuggled into Georgia prisons at an increased rate and that they allowed for inmates—and par- ticularly gang members—to engage in criminal activity from prison. He also described the methods by which...
Dixon was present for Malone’s murder, afterwards fleeing to Marco Watson’s apartment where Devin Thomas—who was also an SMM member—was present. Dixon was “really frantic” as she told Watson and Thomas about Malone’s murder. After hearing about what had happened, Thomas “felt somebody would have to get some get back for this.” Thomas testified that he then...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 27 de octubre de 2026
State v. McGriff
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia revocó la orden de un juez del condado de Clinch que excluía la declaración de un adolescente del 11 de marzo ante los investigadores, pero devolvió dos declaraciones anteriores para que se aclaren los hechos, porque las conclusiones del juez no sustentaban adecuadamente que él estuviera bajo custodia.
(b) March 6 Statement At the motion to suppress hearing, the State presented the testimony of Agent Hundley in connection with McGriff’s March 6 interview. Agent Hundley testified that she asked to speak to McGriff at the Florida hospital, 9 and after he agreed, she inter- viewed him in a waiting room; a portion of that interview was audio recorded. She did...
The trial court also orally granted the motion to suppress the statements made in the March 6 interview, finding that Agent Hundley “drove to another state to get the cell phone of the De- fendant in a hospital, took him to a room, had a conversation that lasted almost 30 minutes that she deemed fit to record. There w[ere] conversations not on recording....
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 13 de agosto de 2026
Dorsey v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato en la comisión de un delito grave de un hombre del condado de DeKalb, dictaminando que las fotos y el video que lo mostraban con armas fueron admitidos correctamente y que la falta de su abogado en exigir instrucciones al jurado sobre identificación no cambió el resultado del juicio.
1. The evidence presented at trial showed the following. In October 2021, 22-year-old Wilson—who was on leave from the military—met 16-year-old Salazar-Chavez. Soon thereafter, the pair began an exclusive romantic relationship. Most of their re- lationship was long-distance, as Wilson was stationed in South Korea or North Carolina while Salazar-Chavez...
Wilson was shot in his left leg; Salazar-Chavez was shot in her left arm and the left side of her chest. A medical examiner testified that Salazar-Chavez died from the shot to her chest. Investigators who responded to the scene recovered 11 nine-millimeter cartridge casings, and a firearms examiner later testified that all 11 of those casings were fired...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 9 de septiembre de 2026
Ash v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato de Richard Ash, dictaminando que los datos de ubicación del teléfono celular y otras pruebas respaldaron suficientemente el testimonio de un cómplice y que el silencio de Ash durante la anulación de su primer juicio implicó una renuncia a cualquier impugnación por doble incriminación contra su nuevo juicio.
Atlanta Police Detective Kevin Leonpacher, who was tendered as an expert at trial in the field of “historical cell phone data,” “cell tower analysis,” and “phone data analysis,” testified that he received phone records from the cellular service providers for the cell phones of Ash, Fuller, Larkins, Mack, and Sherry pursuant to a search warrant. Detective...
6 Ash’s Google account, including his gmail account, and his location services were activated on his cell phone. residence in Riverdale, 7 and at 5:38 a.m., the user of Ash’s cell phone placed a call near the intersection of Hadlock Street and Leslie Avenue while in close proximity to the other defendants’ cell phones. At 10:08 p.m. on August 4, the user of...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 17 de febrero de 2026
Dempsey v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó las condenas por asesinato con agravantes de un adolescente del condado de Gwinnett en las muertes por disparos de dos hombres durante un trato de marihuana fallido, al considerar suficiente la evidencia y adecuada la decisión del juez de primera instancia de permitir que el jurado supiera sobre su libertad condicional.
On August 10, Sergeant Pierson interviewed Dempsey, who was 16 at the time, at his home with his grandmother present. During the interview, Dempsey gave his cell phone to Sergeant Pierson. On August 15, after reading Dempsey the “Advice of Rights to Juveniles” form, 4 Sergeant Pierson interviewed Dempsey again in the presence of his grandmother at police...
acquaintance of Davis, and Davis committed the murders.7 Additionally, Dempsey stated that, after investigators searched the Amy Road house, Davis called Dempsey and said that investigators found a firearm inside the house.8 After Sergeant Pierson obtained a search warrant for the information on Dempsey’s cell phone, the Gwinnett County Police Department’s...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 18 de agosto de 2026
Greene v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato en la comisión de un delito grave de un hombre del condado de Sumter, al determinar que la evidencia era suficiente para que el jurado rechazara su alegato de legítima defensa y que su abogado de juicio no fue constitucionalmente deficiente.
By way of background, on the second day of trial, the trial court sua sponte addressed jurors about potential misconduct on two occasions. First, the court dismissed the jury for lunch but asked an alternate juror to stay behind and asked her if she had been falling asleep. The alternate juror responded that she had not been falling asleep, that she had a...
Second, there is no evidence that the juror who checked his cell phone used the phone for any case-related purpose that might have impacted Greene’s right to a fair trial. The record suggested the opposite, as the juror’s explanation that he had used his cell phone to check a message from his mother indicated that he had used the phone for a personal...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 30 de junio de 2026
Owens v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó las condenas de Celeste Alexandria Owens por asesinato y crueldad infantil en la muerte de la hija de ocho años de su novia, dictaminando que la evidencia en video, los hallazgos médicos y el testimonio de una niña sobreviviente eran suficientes para respaldar el veredicto del jurado.
Police officers asked if Hall and Owens would accompany them to police headquarters to be interviewed, and they agreed, bringing the children along. Once there, Owens gave a video-rec- orded interview that was played for the jury at trial. During Ow- ens’s interview, investigators checked with her sister, who said Owens did not visit her the night before...
Investigators also found on Owens’s cell phone Google searches from November 19 for “What to do when a child just won’t listen,” “lakes near me,” “How the sewers on the streets work[],” “Why do kids run away?” and “How do I report someone missing?” All these searches had been deleted. By investigating the cell phone, business and financial records,...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 21 de abril de 2026
Larkins v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato de Matthew Larkins en la muerte a tiros de Shanna Smith, rechazando impugnaciones al testimonio del cómplice, a una instrucción al jurado, al desempeño de su abogado, a pruebas de oídas y a la estrategia del argumento final del fiscal.
Fuller testified that, shortly after leaving the scene, he realized he had dropped his cell phone, but he did not know when or where. Later that morning, Jones told Fuller that the Atlanta Police Department had his cell phone, and when Fuller was interviewed by detectives in February 2017, he initially claimed he had lost the phone about a week prior to the...
Atlanta Police Detective Kevin Leonpacher, who was tendered as an expert at trial in the field of “historical cell phone data,” “cell tower analysis,” and “phone data analysis,” testified that he received phone records from the cellular service providers for the cell phones of Larkins, Fuller, Ash, Mack, and Sherry pursuant to a search warrant. Detective...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 9 de septiembre de 2026
Kennedy v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena de Malik Kennedy por asesinato con malicia en la muerte de una niña de dos años, dictaminando que la evidencia fue suficiente y que cualquier error al admitir evidencia del teléfono celular fue inofensivo.
At trial, the medical examiner and Dr. Frasier testified about the extent of Trinity’s injuries, observing that Trinity would have had to endure violent shaking to suffer the head injuries that caused her death. Trinity was under the sole care of Kennedy when she suffered these injuries, and Kennedy admitted that he shook her while Kyles was at work....
(a) On May 2, 2021, the trial court authorized search war- rant No. 21X00592 (the “Seizure Warrant”), which allowed offic- ers to search the motel room and seize medications (prescribed or over the counter), illegal substances, blood, DNA, corpse of the deceased child, clothing and bedding, and electronic devices in room #206 at 3500 Venture Parkway,...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 17 de marzo de 2026
Rainey v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó las condenas de una mujer del condado de Fulton por homicidio grave y allanamiento de morada, al determinar que la evidencia mostró que ella dirigió a otros hacia un dormitorio específico al que no tenía derecho a entrar y que su voz fue debidamente identificada en el juicio.
Appellant’s aunt testified that Appellant, who went to live with her for a few weeks after leaving the rooming house, told her that Appellant’s boyfriend (Ellison) went into the rooming house with a gun, that he harmed people, that someone shot him as he was leaving the house, and that Appellant then left the scene. 3 A detective testified that Medina...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 14 de octubre de 2026
Brown v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó las condenas por asesinato de un hombre del condado de Cobb por las muertes a tiros de una pareja durante un trato de drogas que salió mal, y resolvió que cualquier error al admitir su condena por robo de 1994 fue inofensivo ante las abrumadoras pruebas de culpabilidad.
At 1:18 a.m. on August 6, Catherine’s phone sent a message (pur- portedly from Anthony) to Brown’s phone observing that Brown was not by himself. At 1:20 a.m., Brown’s phone responded that his nephew was driving him because he did not have a driver’s license. Catherine’s phone sent a message to Brown’s phone at 1:23 a.m. telling Brown to enter their car and...
We agree with the State that the evidence against Brown was very strong. Text messages showed that Brown communi- cated with the victims about a drug transaction right before the shootings. Two witnesses testified to Brown’s plan to rob the vic- tims and that Brown confessed to shooting them. The murder vic- tims’ young daughter, who was found in the car...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 3 de febrero de 2026
SHELLS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó las condenas por asesinato y robo de Lewis Shells y Marcus Leslie, rechazando impugnaciones sobre la suficiencia de las pruebas, los procedimientos del juicio, las decisiones sobre pruebas y las alegaciones de que sus abogados fueron ineficaces.
6. Leslie contends that the trial court abused its discretion by allowing the State to present expert opinion regarding the location of the defendants’ cell phones through a lay witness, Analyst Andrew Foy with the LaGrange Police Department. While pretrial matters were being discussed, the defense orally moved to exclude Foy’s testimony because he did not...
Foy was then called to testify. He was not tendered as an expert, and he testified from the cell phone records already admitted in evidence, as well as his own reports, which were tendered and admitted during his testimony, about the location of the defendants’ cell phones during the timeframe of the crimes. Foy began by explaining that he was an “analyst”...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 17 de febrero de 2026
Bradford v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó las condenas por asesinato y actividad de pandillas de un hombre del condado de Fulton, rechazando reclamos de evidencia insuficiente y asistencia legal ineficaz, pero criticó duramente la demora de 13 años en resolver sus mociones posteriores a la condena.
Ga. 650, 653 (2015). But in a sufficiency analysis for cases tried under the pre-2013 Evidence Code, which applied to this trial, we do not consider improperly admitted hearsay evidence, which was considered to have no probative value. Id. at 653 n.2. (a) The trial evidence that we can consider on sufficiency review. Before engaging in our sufficiency...
10 We had held that, under the old Evidence Code, unless it was the rare case in which the conduct of an investigating officer was a matter needing to be explained, it was error to permit an investigating officer to testify, under the guise of explaining the officer’s conduct, to what other persons said to the officer during the investigation. See, e.g.,...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 21 de enero de 2026
Wells v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena de Tobias Wells por asesinato con delito grave por un tiroteo mortal durante un intento de robo, rechazando sus reclamos sobre la evidencia, los acuerdos de culpabilidad de los coacusados y las instrucciones al jurado.
Investigators got phone records for Street’s cell phone, as well as cell-site location information (CSLI) from her phone and the phones of Wells, Gilstrap, and Banks. The cell phone data, combined with license-plate-reader images of Street’s car and the video sur- veillance of the shooting, painted a picture of the group’s movements and communications on...
The group left in Street’s car. On the way back to the site of the dice game, the group dropped off Wells and Banks so that Wells could pick up a jacket to wear as a disguise. Then Street, Gilstrap, and Brantley continued on to the apartment complex, while staying in close contact with Wells. At 12:36 a.m., Street texted Wells, “We on the way to the move,”...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 30 de junio de 2026
Collins v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó las condenas por asesinato con circunstancias agravantes y secuestro de vehículo de dos hombres involucrados en un tiroteo en una gasolinera del condado de Gwinnett, y rechazó impugnaciones a la evidencia del juicio, las instrucciones al jurado, una confesión hecha en prisión y el juramento del jurado.
From the gas station surveillance videos, law enforcement officers determined that the assailants were driving a black Mercedes E350. Using a license-plate reader system, law enforcement officers also determined that there was one black Mercedes around the gas station at the time of the shooting and that it was a rental car that had been rented to Booker...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 18 de agosto de 2026
Williams v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato de un hombre del condado de Gwinnett, rechazando sus alegatos de que la legítima defensa debió protegerlo, que su abogado arruinó una investigación telefónica y que un registro de mensajes de texto fue admitido indebidamente.
Additionally, investigators found a black iPhone 11 that be- longed to Pough and a red iPhone 12 that belonged to Williams.4 Law enforcement officers performed a full data extraction from Pough’s phone, but only a limited extraction from Williams’s phone. 5 3 See OCGA § 16-13-25(3)(P) (providing that, except under certain cir- cumstances not present here,...
At Williams’s motion-for-new-trial hearing, his trial coun- sel testified that he met with Williams “probably four times” prior to trial and that he discussed trial strategy with Williams “exten- sively.” When asked about the limited data retrieval performed on Williams’s phone, trial counsel testified that he “suppose[d] that, with the defendant’s consent,...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 13 de agosto de 2026
Lenon v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó las condenas por asesinato de Angelo Lenon, al dictaminar que su abogado de juicio no fue ineficaz por no impugnar las órdenes de registro de celulares que él consideraba demasiado amplias.
WARREN, Presiding Justice. In October 2022, Angelo Lenon was convicted of two counts of malice murder, felony murder, and possession of a firearm dur- ing the commission of a felony related to the shooting deaths of Daishone Flagg, Jeremie Tyson, and Andrew Barkley. He ap- peals his convictions, arguing that trial counsel provided ineffec- tive assistance...
At Lenon’s trial, the State introduced evidence gathered from Lenon’s two cell phones pursuant to search warrants. 2 This evidence included data showing that: the phones were near the crime scene before the shooting; location tracking was turned off both phones around the time of the shooting; the phones were moving quickly at the time Tyson called 911...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 30 de junio de 2026
State v. Ovalle
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia devolvió un caso de drogas del condado de Bartow al tribunal de primera instancia tras determinar que el juez usó la prueba legal incorrecta al conceder a Erik Ovalle un nuevo juicio por un cargo de asesinato con delito grave vinculado a una venta fatal de fentanilo.
Ovalle’s statements were substantiated by text messages between Nicholson and Ovalle. Nicholson did not have his own cell phone and used the cell phone of one of his co-workers to com- municate with Ovalle. On June 19, 2021, Nicholson texted Ovalle and said the “boyd,” or heroin, he had gotten from Ovalle the night before was “bad.” Specifically, the text...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 1 de julio de 2026
Miller v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia anuló parte del proceso de condena por asesinato de un hombre del condado de DeKalb, al determinar que el juez de primera instancia usó la prueba legal equivocada para decidir si la policía mintió o indujo a error de forma imprudente a los magistrados en las solicitudes de órdenes de registro.
After receiving Miller’s name during the investigation, law enforcement discovered a pre-existing “be on the lookout” or “BOLO” depicting Miller’s face, connected to an alleged armed robbery that occurred at an Exxon gas station in Rockdale County on January 13, 2020, more than a month before the February Tic Toc shooting. The BOLO from that January 2020...
The extraction of the -9710 phone revealed a contact listed as “Rarri” with a phone number ending in -6516 and another contact listed as “Ronnie” with the phone number matching the - 8355 phone. At some point during the investigation, law enforcement developed a lead regarding a second suspect, Miller’s co-defendant, Character. The call logs of Miller’s...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 21 de abril de 2026
Ragland v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó las condenas por asesinato y robo a mano armada de un hombre del condado de DeKalb, rechazando argumentos sobre un contrainterrogatorio limitado, una grabación de la cárcel, y reclamos de que su abogado de juicio fue ineficaz.
The trial evidence showed the following. 2 Courtney Johnson was best friends with Adair and considered him to be “like [a] brother.” Johnson was also friends with Justin Cunningham, who was best friends with Ragland and introduced him to Johnson. In November 2016, Johnson introduced Adair to Ragland, from whom she bought drugs. Adair also began buying drugs...
At the motion for new trial hearing, trial counsel testified that when he learned the State had intended to use a new FBI technology that generated more precise cell-site location data, he began to search for an expert on the subject in order to review and advise him about the data. Counsel identified Larry Daniel as a potential expert, and the two...
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