Jackson v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed Jackson's murder conviction, holding that any error by the trial court in failing to rebuke the prosecutor’s comments on Jackson’s post‑arrest silence was harmless, that trial counsel was not ineffective for not moving for a mistrial, and that there were not multiple errors to aggregate for cumulative prejudice. The court relied on the overwhelming evidence of guilt and applied the non‑constitutional harmless‑error test.