Hardy v. State

317 Ga. 736

FINAL COPY S23A0443. HARDY v. THE STATE. WARREN, Justice. In November 2021, Deveric Hardy was convicted of malice murder for the November 2016 shooting death of Kyree Smith.1 He appeals that conviction, arguing that his trial counsel provided constitutionally ineffective assistance by failing to introduce evidence that Smith had a violent character and by failing to request a jury instruction on accomplice corroboration. For the reasons 1 Smith was killed in November 2016. In March 2017, a Gwinnett County grand jury indicted Hardy and Stefan Ellington for malice murder, three…