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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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State v. Lane
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a DeKalb County judge's decision to grant a new trial to a man convicted of hiring a hitman to kill a romantic rival, and along the way overruled decades of precedent that barred courts from weighing multiple trial errors together.
State v. Williams
The Supreme Court of Georgia reinstated a man's aggravated sexual battery conviction, ruling that although the trial judge gave a legally wrong jury instruction about a young child's ability to consent, the mistake did not affect the trial's outcome given the strength of the evidence.
Taylor v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Fulton County man's murder conviction, ruling that a hearsay statement from the victim was properly admitted and that improper trial testimony and prosecution comments about his silence before arrest were harmless.
Thomas v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Houston County man's murder conviction for killing his mentor, rejecting his claims that his confession should have been thrown out and that his trial lawyer failed him.
Walker v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a father's murder conviction in the beating death of his ten-month-old daughter, finding the circumstantial evidence sufficient and rejecting claims of jury instruction errors and ineffective trial counsel.
White v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Spalding County man's murder conviction, rejecting his arguments that evidence about the victim was wrongly excluded and that his trial lawyer was ineffective.
In the Matter of Christopher Aaron Corley
The Supreme Court of Georgia reinstated Christopher Aaron Corley to the practice of law after he showed he had met the conditions the court set for his return to the bar.
Allen v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Lee County man's felony murder conviction for shooting a man who tried to intervene in a domestic dispute, but voided his separate aggravated assault sentence because it should have merged with the murder conviction.
Davis v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Treutlen County man's malice murder conviction, finding that although a GBI agent's testimony was improperly admitted, the errors did not affect the verdict given the strong evidence against him.
Davis v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that a person who has not yet been formally charged by indictment or accusation cannot use a plea in bar to argue the statute of limitation has expired on possible charges against him.
Jackson v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld Jonathan Jackson's murder conviction from a shooting at an East Point community Easter event, ruling that eyewitness testimony alone was enough evidence even without a gun, DNA, or video.
Mann v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld the murder and child cruelty convictions of a man who fatally injured his fiancee's seven-year-old son, rejecting claims about jury instructions, his confession, and his lawyer's strategy.
McCluskey v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia reversed a Floyd County man's two convictions for cruelty to children because his grandchildren did not actually see or hear him shoot his wife, though it upheld his murder conviction and other charges.
Mosley v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld Rashard Mosley's murder and armed robbery convictions from a week-long 2014 Savannah crime spree, rejecting challenges to the evidence, hearsay rulings, and his lawyer's performance.
Rammage v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Bleckley County man's murder conviction for shooting a driver during a road rage confrontation, rejecting his claims of self-defense evidence exclusion, missing jury instructions, and ineffective counsel.
Redding v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a DeKalb County man's murder conviction, rejecting claims that his trial lawyer botched cross-examination of two witnesses and that the trial judge wrongly blocked impeachment evidence.
Rich v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Tift County man's murder and kidnapping convictions stemming from a violent robbery of a home card game that left the homeowner dead.
STEPHENS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed the murder convictions of Lloyd Stephens and Demetreus Brewer, rejecting claims about closing-argument comments, a denied stipulation to a prior felony, and ineffective assistance of counsel.
Smith v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a Richmond County woman's felony murder conviction in the death of her two-year-old son, rejecting her claims that the evidence was too weak, that a juror should not have been replaced, and that jurors should have heard a good-character instruction.
Taylor v. State
The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that a man cannot be held guilty of 13 separate counts of contempt for cursing at a judge during one brief, continuous outburst, and sent the case back for a single contempt conviction.
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