Kennebrew v. State

NAHMIAS, Justice.

Appellant Phillip Kennebrew was found guilty of malice murder, armed robbery, and other crimes in connection with the death of Breyon Alexander. In Babbage v. State, 296 Ga. 364 (768 SE2d 461) (2015), we affirmed the convictions of Mason Babbage and Samuel Hall, who were tried together with Appellant, rejecting their claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. However, each defendant had his *865own attorney at trial, and Appellant — unlike Babbage and Hall — has shown that his trial counsel was professionally deficient in two significant respects and that, but for those errors,…