Supreme Court of Georgia

Andre Pugh v. State

March 14, 2024318 Ga. 706

Summary

The court affirmed Pugh’s convictions, holding that the affidavit supplied a substantial basis for probable cause to search records associated with the targeted phone number. Pugh’s unpreserved overbreadth challenge failed under plain-error review because he did not show that the allegedly overbroad provisions caused harm, and his ineffective-assistance claim failed because a particularity-based suppression motion would not clearly have succeeded at the time of trial. His claims alleging ineffective assistance by motion-for-new-trial counsel were procedurally barred.