Walker v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed Walker’s convictions for felony murder, armed robbery, attempted purchase of marijuana, and a firearm offense. It held that the evidence did not support a lesser-included instruction on misdemeanor marijuana possession, that an unobjected-to jury-charge error did not constitute plain error, and that trial counsel was not constitutionally ineffective for failing to make additional objections to interview statements. The court concluded that some challenged statements had already been covered by counsel’s objections and that the remaining objections either would have been meritless or reasonably could have been omitted as a matter of trial strategy.