Beck v. Georgia
Annotate this CaseDallas Beck was convicted of felony murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime in connection with the 2012 shooting death of Corey Liverpool. In Beck’s previous appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court, the Court remanded the case for the trial court to review his claim that jurors considered extrajudicial information regarding sentencing. The trial court rejected that claim on remand, and Beck appealed again. In addition to raising the juror issue, Beck argued the trial court erred by refusing to admit carious evidence about the victim, and by failing to charge the jury on voluntary manslaughter. Because the Supreme Court deferred to the trial court’s finding that the testimony about juror misconduct was not credible, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in rejecting Beck’s juror misconduct claim. The Supreme Court also concluded the trial court properly refused to give a jury instruction on voluntary manslaughter because no evidence supported it, and that any error by the trial court in limiting evidence about the victim was harmless.
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