State v. Stephens

310 Ga. 57

FINAL COPY S20A0714. THE STATE v. STEPHENS. MCMILLIAN, Justice. The State appeals the trial court’s order partially denying its “Motion to Include Relevant and Probative Evidence,”1 which sought a pretrial ruling on the admissibility of two photographs for use at Justin Devon Stephens’s second trial for the murder of Christopher Starks.2 One of those photographs purportedly depicts Stephens with a gun in his hand (“Exhibit 1”). The other photograph depicts Stephens’s girlfriend as she points a handgun at the camera and Stephens in the background holding what the State describes as a…