Deonte Marquez Kitchens v. State

Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia ATLANTA,____________________ June 02, 2025 The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order: A25A1672. DEONTE MARQUEZ KITCHENS v. THE STATE. In 2010, Deonte Kitchens pleaded guilty to burglary and was sentenced to eight years on probation under the First Offender Act. The following year, the State petitioned to revoke Kitchens’s probation, alleging that he had committed a new offense of felony murder, as well as other crimes. The murder case proceeded to trial in 2016 and, at the close of the evidence, in an order entered on October 4, 2016, the…