Jiles v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed Jiles’s convictions for felony murder and related offenses. It held that any omission of an accomplice-corroboration instruction did not satisfy plain error because the evidence sufficiently corroborated the testimony and did not affect the verdict. The court also rejected all five ineffective-assistance claims and concluded that the presumed instructional and counsel errors did not cumulatively prejudice Jiles.