Coleman v. State

321 Ga. 476

FINAL COPY S25A0355. COLEMAN v. THE STATE. MCMILLIAN, Justice. Amanda Coleman appeals her malice murder conviction for the death of two-year-old Brooklyn Aldridge.1 Coleman argues that (1) the trial court erred in admitting evidence of her methamphetamine use; (2) the trial court erred in excluding her expert’s testimony about alternative causes of death; and (3) trial counsel rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance by failing to object to the prosecutor’s allegedly improper characterization of reasonable doubt during closing argument. Because we conclude that evidence of…