Clements v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Clements’s felony-murder conviction, holding that the evidence was sufficient under Georgia’s circumstantial-evidence standard because the jury was authorized to reject the hypothesis that the victim died solely from methamphetamine use. The court also affirmed the corrected 20-year aggravated-assault sentence, concluding that the trial court’s modification brought the sentence within the statutory range and no additional vacatur order was required. The opinion was unanimous among participating justices, with one justice not participating.