Mobley v. State

Benham, Chief Justice.

In Mobley v. State, 269 Ga. 738 (505 SE2d 722) (1998), we affirmed the conviction of appellant Tommye Mobley for murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and remanded for a hearing on defendant’s claims that he received ineffective assistance of trial counsel. Mobley alleged that his counsel was ineffective because he introduced evidence of Mobley’s character, which allowed the prosecution to introduce evidence that Mobley used marijuana and had broken curfew in Washington, D.C. Trial counsel stated during the trial that he did not want to…