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Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 1 de junio de 2020
Dixon v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó las condenas de Stanley Dixon por asesinato y actividad de pandillas tras un tiroteo mortal luego de una pelea escolar, y determinó que las pruebas y las instrucciones al jurado eran legalmente correctas.
2 Reid was indicted along with Dixon. The record shows that, before he testified against Dixon, Reid agreed to plead guilty to one count of participating in criminal gang activity, with the sentence to be determined later. Reid and to have Reid sign an affidavit that would free Dixon. Thereafter, Brown was transferred to another housing unit of the jail,...
The expert reviewed numerous photographs and screen shots taken from Reid’s cell phone that depicted Dixon and others. The expert pointed out details in the photos that signified that Dixon was affiliated with the Bloods: Dixon wearing a green bandana; wearing “YSL” clothing items; making Slime hand signs, including in group photographs with other...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 10 de agosto de 2020
Clark v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato de Jennifer Clark, y rechazó su alegato de que su abogado de juicio debió haber solicitado una instrucción especial al jurado sobre los antecedentes penales de su coacusado.
Yost admitted that, after the beating, he tied two plastic bags around Donald’s head. He and Clark rolled Donald’s body in the bed linens and placed Donald in the trunk of Donald’s own car along with his wallet, work boots, and the aluminum bat. Clark gave Yost the keys to Donald’s car and Donald’s cell phone. She instructed Yost to get rid of the items,...
Maddox, Donald’s sister, testified that Donald had a habit of calling her daily and she therefore became concerned when neither she nor the family had heard from Donald for two days. When Maddox called Clark and questioned her about Donald’s whereabouts, Clark told Maddox that Donald appeared to have left during the night while Clark was asleep with their...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 10 de agosto de 2020
Griffin v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato de Antonio Griffin, al determinar que su abogado no fue ineficaz por permitir que un testigo declarara sobre una llamada telefónica grabada, ya que ningún tribunal había dictaminado antes que ese testimonio fuera inadmisible.
In addition, the jury heard evidence that even before Mikell began questioning the group’s actions, Griffin approached him with a gun and said, “Give me your money.” And, as will be discussed in more detail below in the context of Griffin’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, the jury heard Grant testify that Griffin told her after the shooting that...
(a) Nothing in Code Section 16-11-62 shall prohibit a person from intercepting a wire, oral, or electronic communication where such person is a party to the communication or one of the parties to the communication has given prior consent to such interception. (b) After obtaining the consent required by this subsection, the telephonic conversations or...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 20 de abril de 2020
Rickman v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena de Victoria Rickman por asesinato con malicia por disparar a William Carter Jr., rechazando los argumentos de que su abogado debió impugnar los registros del teléfono celular y que se admitió indebidamente evidencia de un incidente previo.
2 Testimony at trial established that this type of blood spatter is caused by the gunshot wound victim coughing up blood. 3 Testimony at trial established that this type of blood spatter is not caused by direct or indirect force, but by blood dripping from the body onto another surface. the floor below. Based upon the type, pattern, and location of the...
County, entered his house without permission, grabbed him by the gold necklace on his neck, and forcefully led him around his house demanding to know to whom he had been talking. Eventually, Carter was able to remove Rickman from his home; she then proceeded to run through the neighborhood yelling “rape.” When officers arrived, Rickman alleged that Carter...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 10 de febrero de 2020
Gittens v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato de un recluso de la prisión estatal de Telfair que apuñaló a otro recluso durante una pelea por un teléfono celular, rechazando alegatos de pruebas insuficientes, asistencia letrada ineficaz y testigos de coartada recién descubiertos.
Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, the evidence adduced at trial established as follows. Appellant, his co- defendant Abdullahi Mohamed, and Johnson were all inmates at Telfair State Prison residing in the D-2 dormitory and were involved in a fight that led to Johnson’s death. The jury heard testimony from several witnesses that...
At the hearing on Appellant’s motion for new trial, trial counsel was unable to shed light on why he did not object to this testimony other than noting that he reserves objections for situations where there is “a significant reason” to object. In any event, “it is the conduct of the lawyer, not his thinking, that we assess for reasonableness, even though...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 16 de junio de 2020
Heard v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia revocó las condenas por asesinato y robo a mano armada de un hombre del condado de Clayton, al determinar que los jurados nunca debieron escuchar evidencia de que él cometió un robo de auto y secuestro no relacionado meses después.
4 Detective Gosart testified that the Four Seasons Apartments are five to seven miles from the Everses’ house. he did not personally know Appellant, but “a lot of people say in the streets” that Appellant is called “Mastermind.” The green Mountaineer, which had been stolen from the Four Seasons Apartments on the day before the murder, was found burned on...
5 Detective Gosart did not see a photograph of Stephens until about a month and a half after the crimes. By that time, Stephens had a different hairstyle. between 1:57 p.m. and 2:32 p.m., Stephens’s phone called Appellant’s phone eight times, and Appellant’s phone called Stephens’s phone twice. During these calls, Stephens’s phone was pinging on a tower...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 10 de agosto de 2020
State v. GRIER (And Vice Versa)
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la decisión de un juez de primera instancia de otorgar un nuevo juicio a un hombre condenado por asesinato en la comisión de un delito grave, al determinar que el juez actuó dentro de su discreción como 'decimotercer jurado' al sopesar las pruebas.
With these guiding principles in mind, we turn to the facts of this case. The evidence shows that, on the evening of December 21, 2007, Yarborough and his nephew, Kenneth Kaiser, were walking to a check-cashing store with a check for roughly $1,500. Along the way, they encountered Darius Jordan and Rawlings, who offered them a ride. Jordan and Rawlings were...
Also at trial, the State presented Rawlings as a witness. Rawlings testified, but only after the State granted him immunity from prosecution. He testified that he was riding in a black Honda with Jordan when they picked up Yarborough and Kaiser. After the men cashed a check, he and Jordan sold them drugs and helped them obtain drug paraphernalia with which...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 28 de septiembre de 2020
LUMPKIN 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 dos hombres involucrados en una invasión de hogar fatal en el condado de Gwinnett, rechazando impugnaciones a una parada de tráfico, evidencia excluida y la suficiencia de la evidencia.
Inside and around the van, law enforcement officers located four firearms, a ski mask, a stocking cap, several sets of latex gloves, duct tape, and a laptop belonging to Jackson’s mother. They also collected several of the men’s cell phones. In addition, they found Lumpkin’s cell phone and a ski mask in the bushes where he and West had been hiding and found...
Chandler and Johnson testified that they knew Green as “Tiger” and that Green had helped plan and commit the robbery, including by providing the silver van. The State also presented testimony from an auto shop owner, who stated that he also knew Green as “Tiger”; that on the day before the home invasion, Green had driven the silver van to his shop; and that...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 29 de junio de 2020
Burney v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena de Terrence Burney por asesinato con malicia en la muerte de un hombre de 76 años del condado de Jones, rechazando reclamos sobre instrucciones al jurado, un juicio retrasado y una jurado que buscó términos legales en internet.
The record also authorized the trial court to determine that the claims of prejudice asserted by Burney were meritless. Although the State continued working to gather evidence against Burney while he was incarcerated, those actions occurred during a period of time between October 2008 and September 2011 in which the trial court attributed the delays in the...
Two weeks after the conclusion of Burney’s trial, the trial court was made aware of potential juror misconduct during deliberations. The State proposed that an independent investigation of the matter be conducted, and without objection from Burney, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Department was appointed to conduct the investigation. The trial court prohibited...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 10 de febrero de 2020
State v. Lane
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la decisión de un juez del condado de DeKalb de conceder un nuevo juicio a un hombre condenado por contratar a un sicario para matar a un rival amoroso, y de paso revocó décadas de precedentes que impedían a los tribunales evaluar múltiples errores del juicio en conjunto.
The State also tried to corroborate Stallworth’s testimony through cell phone data. Cell phone records showed communications between Stallworth’s phone and two separate phone numbers listed in Stallworth’s cell phone contacts as “D” and “Punkin D.” Talking to Detective Delima, Stallworth called Lane “D” and confirmed that “Punkin D” was the same person;...
12 We can think of at least two other standards that might apply to other types of errors. On ordinary review, the State must prove that a constitutional error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. See Stovall v. State, 287 Ga. 415, 418 (3) (696 SE2d 633) (2010). And certain unpreserved trial court errors are subject to plain error review, under which the...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 28 de febrero de 2020
Westbrook 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 DeKalb, rechazando impugnaciones a su arresto sin orden judicial, a una identificación mediante fotos en el teléfono y a una llamada telefónica grabada en la cárcel usada en su contra en el juicio.
1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdicts, the evidence showed that at around 4:00 a.m. on July 13, 2015, a man walked into a convenience store on Memorial Drive in DeKalb County and shot the store clerk, Harry Wells, in the abdomen, resulting in his death. Warren Mitchell was at the convenience store early that morning when a man walked by him,...
After obtaining permission from apartment complex management, the detectives also searched the apartment in which Westbrook was living. There, they found a pair of black sweatpants with yellow emojis on them and a dark shirt with the letters “BC” on the front of the shirt. Additionally, information extracted from Westbrook’s cell phone pursuant to a search...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 24 de agosto de 2020
Harris v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato de Robert Harris y rechazó sus reclamos de asistencia ineficaz y aplazamiento, pero determinó que el tribunal de primera instancia lo sentenció incorrectamente por separado por agresión agravada y agresión con lesión agravada contra la misma víctima.
Earlier that day, Adrieonna Jumper, who was then dating Carter, drove him around the area of the shooting in her rented white Hyundai Sonata. At one point, Carter exited the car, walked up the street, and spoke with a group of people in the “Big Four” store. One of the men, “Kyshawn,” said that someone at the Chevron station had jewelry and money in his...
The detective that responded to the shooting went to the hospital and noticed that both Harris and Finch were brought in around the same time, but he did not immediately get to speak to either of them. The detective collected Harris’s clothing and possessions as evidence. Among Harris’s possessions was Battle’s cell phone, which was later confirmed as the...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 20 de abril de 2020
Keller v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato en la modalidad de delito grave (felony murder) de un hombre de Columbus que golpeó hasta la muerte al hijo de dos años de su exesposa, rechazando alegaciones de asistencia legal ineficaz, errores del juicio y parcialidad judicial.
Third, Keller contends that, had trial counsel properly authenticated medical records from Columbus Regional Medical Center, she would have been able to present them as exculpatory evidence, arguing that because the Columbus records showed no skull fracture, that injury must have occurred during Powell’s transport to Scottish Rite. But the underlying...
2 These medical records were identified as a defense exhibit at trial, though not admitted, and they were identified and testified to by Keller’s trial counsel at the hearing on Keller’s motion for new trial. phone searches without a search warrant allowing the reasonable assumption the outcome of the trial would have been different.” While the search and...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 21 de diciembre de 2020
Knighton v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato de un adolescente en una puñalada mortal, dictaminando que las interrupciones de un juez de primera instancia durante el alegato final para corregir errores legales no negaron al acusado un juicio justo.
NAHMIAS, Presiding Justice. Appellant Quran Knighton was convicted of malice murder and possession of a knife during the commission of a felony in connection with the stabbing death of Markice Harris. Appellant contends that by twice interrupting his counsel’s closing argument to provide instructions to the jury, the trial court committed plain error and...
Around 5:30 p.m., Harris sent Appellant a text saying that he was outside Appellant’s house and wanted to fight. Two hours later, Appellant responded that he had been asleep, and Harris sent a text saying that they could meet tomorrow. Harris then sent Appellant texts saying, “no funny sh**”; “leave that dam[n] pocket knife in the house”; “You try sum funny...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 16 de junio de 2020
Glover v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó la condena por asesinato de un hombre de Savannah, rechazando sus argumentos de que su abogado debió haber objetado el alegato final del fiscal y que se admitió indebidamente un testimonio de referencia.
1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdicts, the evidence at trial showed that in the early morning hours of November 27, 2015, Glover and his co-indictee Brandon Miller met up while walking to a Savannah gas station convenience store. When the two reached the store, Miller was approached by Williams, a homeless man to whom Miller, a dealer...
3 We note that the prosecutor made a similar comment during his opening statement: “And in America one of the things you can do is invoke your rights and just not bother talking to the police, and another thing you can do is choose to speak to them. He went with option two, and he did give a statement.” Glover did not object to this remark at trial, nor...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 8 de septiembre de 2020
Subar 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 DeKalb por una invasión de hogar fatal, rechazando sus reclamos de asistencia legal ineficaz y de pruebas indebidas sobre delitos previos.
1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, the evidence presented at trial showed that, in January 2016, Bryant was living with his brother, Tevin, in a two-bedroom apartment in DeKalb County. On the evening of January 28, 2016, the men invited some friends over for a party at their apartment. When the party ended, everyone went home,...
The medical examiner recovered a bullet from Bryant’s body and determined that Bryant died as a result of a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The State’s firearm examiner determined that the bullet recovered during the autopsy matched the shell casing found at the scene, and opined that both had been fired from a Glock .40 pistol. Kimber and Stoddart provided...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 6 de abril de 2020
Holzheuser v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia se negó a revisar la condena de un hombre por abuso sexual infantil, dejando en pie un fallo de la Corte de Apelaciones que determinó que la falta de objeción de su abogado a imágenes de internet no constituyó asistencia ineficaz.
BLACKWELL, Justice, concurring in the denial of certiorari. When Robert Holzheuser was tried for child molestation and public indecency, the trial court admitted evidence of digital images of young girls that a detective had retrieved from several websites. The detective earlier had searched Holzheuser’s mobile phone, and his search revealed the web...
The problem, however, is that the content of websites is not static, and it is hardly uncommon for the content of a particular website to vary over time. Moreover, the ownership of an internet domain may change, and as a result, a single web address may direct to altogether different websites at different points in time. Consequently, although the testimony...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 18 de mayo de 2020
Walker 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 de Columbus por matar a su novia, rechazando sus reclamos sobre jurisdicción, decisiones probatorias y el desempeño de sus abogados.
2. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdicts, the evidence at trial showed the following. In August 2012, Jessica Osborne and her sister Latasha Houston moved from Mississippi to Columbus, Georgia. They saw and talked to each other every day until April 2014, when Osborne met and began dating Appellant. Appellant isolated Osborne from her sister,...
At about noon on June 17, 2014, Kohlbry was playing outside when she saw Appellant and Osborne in their driveway yelling at each other and heard Appellant tell Osborne that she could “get the ‘F’ out of the city.” Sarah Means lived next to Kohlbry and directly across Reese Road from Appellant and Osborne’s house. At about 4:00 p.m. on June 17, 2014, Means...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 19 de octubre de 2020
Goins v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó por segunda vez la condena por asesinato de un hombre del condado de Gwinnett, al rechazar su renovado reclamo de juicio rápido y no encontrar error reversible en el manejo de la evidencia y una solicitud de juicio nulo por parte del tribunal de primera instancia.
4. Appellant contends next that the trial court erred by failing to suppress evidence obtained from his cell phone. Appellant’s pretrial counsel filed a motion to suppress the evidence, arguing that the lead detective seized Appellant’s phone from him during an interview about two weeks after Taylor’s murder, without a warrant and under no applicable...
The evidence that Appellant saved Taylor’s phone number under a false name and that he deleted her number, their text messages, and some of their call entries at some unknown time was not especially incriminating, given that Appellant admitted to the police and at trial that he had an extramarital affair with Taylor. And although the report showed and the...
Opinión de la Corte Suprema · Supreme Court of Georgia · 10 de agosto de 2020
Hood v. State
Resumen de Georgia Commons (escrito con IA): La Corte Suprema de Georgia confirmó las condenas de Diara Hood por asesinato en la comisión de un delito grave y delitos relacionados por atraer a dos hombres a una emboscada de robo, pero determinó que el tribunal de primera instancia cometió dos errores de sentencia que deben corregirse.
2 Smith’s injury required approximately ten stitches. store on South Norcross-Tucker Road.3 As he was driving out of the parking lot, Smith was stopped by a Gwinnett County Police Department officer for driving without headlights. The officer administered a sobriety test, which Smith passed. A second officer, with a background in drug recognition, was...
Records from Carden’s phone showed multiple communications on July 29 with a phone number that investigators linked to Hood. At 2:59 a.m., Carden texted “OK almost there,” and at 3:08 a.m., he texted, “At shell one on the ritd [sic].” And in the three hours before his death, Carden continued to make and receive 27 calls and numerous text messages to and...
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