Lewis v. Georgia
Annotate this CaseIn 2011, Didrekeus Lewis was convicted by jury of malice murder and other crimes for the shooting death of Marvin Printup. Lewis argued on appeal: (1) the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions; (2) the trial court erred when it denied Lewis’s motion to suppress evidence that Yvette Varner identified a man in a photo lineup as “Weasel”; (3) the trial court erred when it denied Lewis’s motion for mistrial made after a detective summarized a pre-trial statement from a witness, Abdul Aziz, that the trial court had ruled was inadmissible before trial; (4) the trial court erred by denying Lewis’s motion to suppress evidence that Aziz identified a man in a photograph as “Weasel”; and (5) that Lewis received ineffective assistance of counsel. Finding no reversible error, the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed Lewis' convictions.
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