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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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Keller v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld the felony murder conviction of a Columbus man who beat his ex-wife's two-year-old son to death, rejecting claims of ineffective counsel, trial errors, and judicial bias.
Mills v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia reversed a Douglas County man's murder conviction because the trial judge removed a holdout juror during deliberations without enough investigation to justify it.
Moore v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a ruling that a Monroe County man convicted of murder and rape in 1977 had been properly notified of a 2017 order denying him a delayed appeal, even though he claimed he never received it.
Morris v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld Darius Morris's murder conviction from a Fulton County home invasion robbery, rejecting claims about a delayed trial transcript, jury selection limits, a jury instruction, and a locked courtroom.
Rickman v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld Victoria Rickman's malice murder conviction for shooting William Carter Jr., rejecting claims that her lawyer should have challenged cell phone searches and that prior-incident evidence was wrongly admitted.
Robinson v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed a teenager's murder and armed robbery convictions, finding that any errors in showing demonstrative firearms and body-camera footage to the jury were either proper or harmless given the strength of the evidence against him.
Santana v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a DeKalb County man's convictions for three murders, rejecting his claims that the evidence was too weak, that the judge should have granted a new trial, and that his trial lawyer was ineffective.
Sullivan v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Fulton County man's murder conviction, rejecting his claim that his trial lawyer was constitutionally ineffective for not calling more witnesses or presenting mental health expert testimony.
Turner v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Bibb County man's murder conviction, rejecting his claims that his trial lawyer's mistakes about a handwriting expert, gang references, and sentencing information changed the outcome of his trial.
Valrie v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Gwinnett County man's murder conviction in his infant daughter's death, rejecting his claim that his trial lawyer's decisions about objecting to certain evidence amounted to ineffective assistance.
Williams v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Fulton County man's murder conviction, ruling his trial lawyer was not ineffective for failing to argue the death was accidental during consensual erotic asphyxiation.
In the Matter of Ricardo L. Polk
The Supreme Court of Georgia reinstated Ricardo L. Polk to the practice of law in Georgia after finding he satisfied the conditions the court had previously set for his return.
Dresbach v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Fulton County man's murder conviction, ruling his lawyers were not shown to have been ineffective in advising him about a plea deal he had already refused to consider.
Ensslin v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Paulding County man's murder conviction, agreeing that investigators wrongly kept questioning him after he said he had nothing else to say, but ruling that mistake did not affect the trial's outcome.
Frazier v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Washington County man's felony murder conviction, ruling that jurors could reasonably find he was a party to an attempted armed robbery that led to his accomplice's fatal shooting.
Hall v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Newton County man's murder conviction for shooting a friend's brother and beating another man, finding the eyewitness testimony and circumstantial evidence were enough to support the jury's verdict.
Hatney v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Valdosta State Prison inmate's felony murder conviction, ruling that even if the trial court should have instructed jurors on voluntary manslaughter, leaving out that instruction did not affect the verdict.
Holzheuser v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia refused to review a man's child molestation conviction, letting stand a Court of Appeals ruling that his lawyer's failure to object to internet images was not ineffective assistance.
Hudson v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Chatham County man's murder conviction, ruling that a heated verbal insult over his mother's death did not justify jury instructions on voluntary manslaughter or insanity, and that limiting cross-examination about a police officer's question about mental illness was harmless.
In the Matter of Andrew David Taylor
The Supreme Court of Georgia disbarred an attorney reciprocally after he was disbarred in Nevada for misappropriating more than a million dollars in client funds and misleading Nevada bar officials.
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