State v. Wilkins

302 Ga. 156

FINAL COPY S17A0873. THE STATE v. WILKINS. BOGGS, Justice. The State appeals from the trial court’s order granting Nathaniel Willie Wilkins’ pretrial motion in limine to exclude incriminating statements made by his co-defendant Michael Dontaa Jones with regard to a 2013 double murder. The trial court held that some of the statements, while made by a co-conspirator, were not made “in furtherance of the conspiracy” and thus did not fall within the exception to the hearsay rule provided by OCGA § 24-8-801 (d) (2) (E). Because the trial court did not abuse its discretion in so doing,…