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Opinions of the Supreme Court of Georgia filed from 2020-01-13 through 2026-10-14: 1,778 opinions. Each opinion has its full text and a plain-language summary. Browse by year and case type, or search by case name.
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In the Matter of Trent Lee Coggins
The Supreme Court of Georgia accepted a Valdosta lawyer's petition for a six-month suspension over trust account violations, retroactive to when he stopped practicing, and reinstated him immediately because the suspension period had already passed.
Jackson v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld Curtis Jackson's malice murder conviction, finding that a missing jury instruction on accomplice testimony was not likely to have changed the verdict and that Jackson suffered no harm from a juror dispute that was ultimately resolved in his favor.
Lee v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld Harvey Lee's murder conviction, rejecting his claims that his trial lawyers were constitutionally ineffective for not objecting to evidence about the victim's good character, a family photo, and comments on his silence during a police interview.
Lowe v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Gwinnett County man's murder conviction, ruling that his 2015 domestic violence charges were properly tried together with his wife's 2017 murder, but ordered his sentence fixed because he was wrongly sentenced on two felony murder counts for one death.
Park v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Gwinnett County man's malice murder conviction for a fatal stabbing after a parking lot brawl, rejecting claims about a missing jury instruction and ineffective trial counsel.
Pritchett v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Gilmer County man's malice murder conviction, ruling that although the trial court wrongly allowed evidence of his past behavior, the mistake did not affect the jury's verdict given the strong evidence against him.
Watts v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Fulton County man's felony murder and related convictions, ruling the evidence was enough to convict him and that his confession to police was properly admitted at trial.
SCOTT K. CAMP v. RYAN CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS
The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that a Douglas County election board wrongly let a substitute Democratic candidate onto the general election ballot for Chief Magistrate Judge because he never properly qualified to run.
BUCKNER-WEBB v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that a trial judge's refusal to let an attorney withdraw over a conflict of interest cannot be immediately appealed, and upheld the dismissal of an appeal by former Atlanta Public Schools educators convicted in the test-cheating scandal.
Downer v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld William Douglas Downer's felony murder and armed robbery convictions, rejecting arguments about accomplice testimony, custodial statements, hearsay, withheld evidence about a jailhouse wedding, and denied DNA testing.
In the Matter of Joseph Arrington II
The Supreme Court of Georgia disbarred attorney Joseph Arrington II for repeatedly misusing his trust account, including depositing personal funds and making cash withdrawals from money that was supposed to be held for clients.
Jones v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed a man's murder conviction for a fatal 2015 shooting in Augusta, ruling that a shotgun shell found in his back yard was properly seized while officers executed a valid arrest warrant.
Jones v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Dougherty County man's felony murder convictions, ruling that the jury was entitled to disbelieve his claim of self-defense provocation and find the shooting unprovoked.
Lewis v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld Didrekeus Lewis's murder conviction for the shooting death of Marvin Printup, rejecting challenges to eyewitness identification evidence, a denied mistrial motion, and his trial lawyer's performance.
STANLEY v. PATTERSON
The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that court employees who failed to pull a canceled bind-over order from a stack of files were not shielded by quasi-judicial immunity, because that mistake was a clerical slip-up, not a judge-like decision.
State v. Brown
The Supreme Court of Georgia sent a Fulton County self-defense immunity ruling back to the trial court because the record does not show whether the judge ever decided if a man accused of murder could also claim immunity on the related armed robbery charge.
State v. Burton
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a trial court's decision to suppress statements a 16-year-old made to police after his murder arrest, ruling the State failed to prove he knowingly and voluntarily waived his Miranda rights.
Thomas v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed Derrico Thomas's murder conviction, ruling that although the trial court wrongly let jurors hear about a prior shooting, that mistake did not affect the verdict given the strong evidence against him.
Torres v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a bench trial murder conviction of Luis Torres, ruling that his statements to police were properly admitted and that his double jeopardy claim about being retried could not be reviewed because he never raised it below.
Warren v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld Brandon Warren's murder conviction, ruling his trial lawyer's failure to object to the prosecutor's closing argument and his advice about testifying did not amount to ineffective assistance.
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