Jackson v. Georgia
Annotate this CaseJaramus Jackson was convicted of felony murder and a firearm offense in connection with the 2015 fatal shooting of Carlos Wallace. On appeal, he argued: (1) the evidence presented at his trial was insufficient to support his convictions; (2) the trial court erred by allowing the State to present evidence under OCGA 24-4- 404 (b) that Jackson had shot at someone else in 2005 and the trial court improperly instructed the jury on how to consider this evidence; (3) the trial court erred in failing to give various jury instructions and his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to ask for them; (4) the trial court erred by preventing the defense from cross examining accomplice witness Ronney Jackson about his 1997 arrest for murder, the State committed a Brady violation by failing to timely disclose the 1997 arrest, and trial counsel was ineffective in failing to question Ronney about the arrest and to object to the Brady violation; (5) trial counsel failed to convey the State’s proposed sentence recommendation if Jackson pled guilty; and (6) trial counsel was ineffective in failing to object to certain questions asked during his cross-examination. Taking each contention in turn, the Georgia Supreme Court found no reversible error.
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