Remler v. State

318 Ga. 61

FINAL COPY S23A1075. REMLER v. THE STATE. MCMILLIAN, Justice. Justin Remler challenges his 2019 conviction for felony murder in connection with the death of Tristan Mitchell, who was two years and nine months old.1 Remler contends that the evidence was not legally sufficient to support the jury’s verdict, that a defense expert was wrongly prevented from testifying that a preexisting heart condition was the likely cause of Tristan’s death, that the trial court’s instruction to the jury on proximate cause was erroneous, 1 Tristan died on September 12, 2016. On May 10, 2017, Remler was…