Campbell v. the State (four Cases)

Summary

The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed the convictions of Campbell, Parrish, Sanders, and Speaks, rejecting their challenges to joinder, evidentiary rulings, jury instructions, counsel disqualification, plea negotiations, and sufficiency of the evidence. The court held that several trial errors occurred, including admission of juror-intimidation evidence and an unsupported deliberate-ignorance instruction, but found those errors harmless individually and cumulatively. The court also held that the challenged co-defendant statements did not violate the Confrontation Clause and that the evidence was constitutionally sufficient to support Speaks's convictions.