Georgia v. Thomas
Annotate this CaseTyler Thomas was convicted of malice murder and a firearm crime in connection with the fatal shooting of Ashley Brown during a planned drug deal. The trial court granted Thomas’s motion for new trial, ruling that the State violated Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), by failing to disclose a deal between the State and its witness Jaleesa Glenn. On appeal, the State argued the order granting a new trial should have been reversed, while Thomas argued in his cross-appeal that the evidence presented at his trial was legally insufficient to support the jury’s guilty verdicts, so a re-trial should have been barred by double jeopardy. After review, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected the arguments in both cases and affirmed the trial court’s grant of a new trial.
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