Supreme Court of Georgia
Samuels v. State
February 17, 2026
Summary
The court affirmed Samuels’s convictions arising from two shootings, holding that the circumstantial evidence was sufficient to support the aggravated-assault, firearm-possession, and malice-murder convictions. It further held that any assumed error in admitting drug-dealing evidence was harmless, any unpreserved error concerning a detective’s jail-call testimony did not satisfy plain-error review, and counsel’s failure to object did not prejudice Samuels. The court also rejected cumulative-error relief because the alleged errors did not deny Samuels a fundamentally fair trial.