Williams v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed Williams’s convictions and sentences, rejecting six claims concerning jury-pool shuffling, exclusion of self-defense evidence, an allegedly prejudicial jury-tampering question, an involuntary-manslaughter instruction, and ineffective assistance of counsel. The court held that the jury pool need not be shuffled, any error in excluding one prior violent act was harmless, the curative instruction adequately addressed the improper question, the evidence did not support an involuntary-manslaughter charge, and Williams failed to establish ineffective assistance.