Supreme Court of Georgia
Jackson v. the State.
June 24, 2019830 S.E.2d 99
Summary
The court affirmed Jackson’s convictions, rejecting his challenges to the jury instructions, admission of police reports, mistrial ruling, and claims of ineffective assistance. The court held that the jury-instruction claim did not satisfy plain-error review, any error involving the police reports was harmless, and the mistrial motion was untimely. It vacated Jackson’s life-without-parole sentence for malice murder because the recidivist-sentencing statute in effect when the murder occurred did not authorize that sentence, and remanded for resentencing.