Weldon v. State

Hines, Presiding Justice.

This Court granted a writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Weldon v. State, 327 Ga. App. 862 (761 SE2d 421) (2014), to determine if that Court properly addressed Brian Eugene Weldon’s claim that the trial court violated his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial by ordering that he appear at trial wearing an electronic shock device as a security measure. Finding that the Court of Appeals did not err, we affirm that Court’s judgment.

Weldon was tried before a jury and convicted of twelve counts of armed robbery and other crimes. Shortly after Weldon’s case was…