Legal Opinion
Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided April 8, 2025No. S25A0398PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
321 Ga. 390
FINAL COPY S25A0398. WILLIAMS v. THE STATE. PETERSON, Chief Justice. Michael Williams is appealing his convictions for malice murder and other offenses for the fatal shooting of Tomas Gooden at a house party.1 Williams asserts (1) plain error in the trial court’s failure to instruct the jury that the State bore the burden to disprove Williams’s justification defense and (2) ineffective assistance of 1 Gooden was shot on the night of December 8, 2017. On March 5, 2018, a Coweta County grand jury returned an indictment charging Williams with malice murder, felony murder predicated on…
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