Jackson v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed Jackson’s convictions for malice murder, aggravated assault, and gang-related offenses arising from a retaliatory shooting. The court held that independent circumstantial evidence sufficiently corroborated the accomplice’s testimony, satisfied constitutional sufficiency standards, and defeated Jackson’s ineffective-assistance and plain-error claims. The court also held that Jackson’s mistrial claim was not preserved because he neither objected to the curative instruction nor renewed the mistrial motion.