Legal Opinion

SMITH v. THE STATE (Three Cases)

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided October 21, 2019No. S19A0749, S19A0750, S19A0751PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

307 Ga. 106

FINAL COPY S19A0749. SMITH v. THE STATE. S19A0750. HAWKINS v. THE STATE. S19A0751. SEAY v. THE STATE. BLACKWELL, Justice. In February 2010, there was a fight at a nightclub in Albany, followed by a shooting in a nearby parking lot. A patron of the club, LeSheldon Stanford, was killed in the shooting, and a security guard for the club, George Ferguson, was wounded. Three years later, Shanard Smith, Anthony Hawkins, and Shuntavious Seay were tried together on charges arising from the fight and the shooting, and a Dougherty County jury found them guilty of murder and other crimes.…

2Cases cited45 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  3. Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  4. Olds v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2016
  5. Wesley v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2010

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Westbrook v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2020
  2. Eubanks v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2023
  3. Lee v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2024
  4. Walker v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2020
  5. Anderson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2019

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