Gordillo v. State

Eldridge, Judge.

A Cobb County jury found Guillermo Gordillo guilty as a party to the crime of aggravated battery for Gordillo and co-defendant Omar Gonzales’ joint attack on a fellow inmate at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center, wherein Gordillo forced the victim into his cell by beating him with his fists, thereby enabling Gonzales to beat the victim with a broom handle “until [he] was almost dead”; the attack left the victim partially paralyzed and brain damaged. Without challenging the sufficiency of the evidence against him, Gordillo appeals and argues that the trial court improperly…