Hughes v. State

Re'Dayon Hughes shot and killed Dre'Landon Brown inside the Brown family home after sneaking in to see Marjorie Brown, with whom he had a child despite being banned from the house. Hughes claimed self-defense, saying Dre'Landon chased him with a gun, but Dre'Landon's family said Dre'Landon was unarmed and Hughes shot him anyway. A Forsyth County jury convicted Hughes of felony murder and aggravated assault, and the trial court had earlier denied his pretrial request for immunity from prosecution. On appeal, Hughes argued the trial judge wrongly let jurors hear that he once vandalized his ex-girlfriend's grandmother's car, that his trial lawyer failed to present certain evidence and object to other testimony, and that the judge improperly held his failure to retreat against him when denying immunity. The Supreme Court of Georgia disagreed with every argument and affirmed the conviction and the denial of immunity.

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