A divided Supreme Court held that the habeas court erred in ruling that the undisputed facts showed that plea counsel was deficient with regard to consideration of the defendant's compe

The evidence supported the defendant's convictions for felony murder and criminal attempt to commit armed robbery, as the statutorily required aggravating circumstance was established since the defe

The trial court properly denied defendant nursing home owner and home health care company's joint motion for a qualified protective order that would have allowed their attorneys to conduct ex parte

The trial court erred in awarding judgment for a special lien and for default judgment based upon substituted service because the plaintiff's affidavit, pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 14-11-209 f, was defec

Admission of the victim's hearsay statements to her mother and a friend regarding the defendant's prior physical abuse did not violate the defendant's confrontation right, since the statements were

The statutory aggravating circumstance set forth under O.C.G.A. § 17-10-30 b 10 regarding murders committed for the purpose of avoiding, interfering with, or preventing lawful arrest, does not exten

The prosecutor's juxtaposition of photographs of the victims while living and dead did not constitute an improper arg

The trial court's error in admitting evidence of the defendant's prior family violence battery convictions, over his validity objection, was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, since the battery vic

The trial court did not err in admitting certain pre-autopsy photographs of the murder victims to show nature and location of their inj