Legal Opinion
Swinson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 1, 2021No. S21A0396PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
311 Ga. 48
FINAL COPY S21A0396. SWINSON v. THE STATE. MCMILLIAN, Justice. Dan Toni Swinson appeals his convictions on two counts of malice murder in connection with the shooting deaths of Heber Jettie Bennett, Jr., and Eliace Marie Smith.1 On appeal, he asserts that the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions; that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence obtained from a search warrant for his cell phone records, which was 1 Bennett and Smith were killed on June 30, 2013, and in connection with their deaths, a Seminole County grand jury indicted Swinson on…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Davis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
- Carpenter v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2018
- Timberlake v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1980
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3Cited by6 opinions
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