Lewis v. Georgia
Annotate this CaseAppellant Jeffrey Lewis was convicted of felony murder and other crimes in connection with the fatal shooting of Delorean Patterson, who was killed during an armed robbery that Lewis, Patterson, and others carried out at a “trap house” in Atlanta in 2011. On appeal, Lewis argued the trial court erred: (1) by admitting his confession to police given while Lewis was in custody because it was induced by a “hope of benefit;” (2) by admitting that same confession because it was obtained in violation of his right to counsel; (3) by denying Lewis’s claim that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to object when the trial court refused to expound on a jury instruction; and (4) by giving an incorrect jury instruction on the statutory accomplice-corroboration requirement. Finding no reversible error, the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed Lewis’s convictions.
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