Legal Opinion
Sharpe v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 19, 2020No. S20A1399PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
310 Ga. 254
FINAL COPY S20A1399. SHARPE v. THE STATE. MCMILLIAN, Justice. In July 2017, an Emanuel County jury found David Lee Sharpe guilty of felony murder and other related crimes in connection with the shooting death of Devonte Coney.1 Sharpe now asserts that he received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel failed to object to the testimony of a GBI special agent and failed to poll the jury. For the reasons that follow, we 1 Coney was shot and killed on October 2, 2016. On December 14, 2016, an Emanuel County grand jury indicted Sharpe for malice…
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