Legal Opinion

Shealey v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided June 1, 2020No. S20A0185PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

308 Ga. 847

FINAL COPY S20A0185. SHEALEY v. THE STATE. NAHMIAS, Presiding Justice. Appellant Dextreion Shealey and his co-defendant Kelvin Hurston were found guilty of felony murder and other crimes in connection with the gang-related shooting death of Daven Tucker. Appellant’s only contention in this appeal is that the trial court abused its discretion by excluding from evidence statements that his co-indictee Charles Lovelace made during Lovelace’s guilty plea hearing. Seeing no error, we affirm.1 1 Tucker was killed on December 17, 2016. On March 16, 2017, a Troup County grand jury indicted…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Mitchell v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
  3. Vega v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2009
  4. United States of America, Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Charles L. Jackson, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
  5. State v. HamiltonSupreme Court of Georgia · 2020

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Neuman v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2021
  2. Washington v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2021
  3. Hurston v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2021
  4. Sams v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2022
  5. LUMPKIN v. THE STATE (Two Cases)Supreme Court of Georgia · 2020

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