Reyes v. State

FINAL COPY

309 Ga. 660

S20A0780. REYES v. THE STATE. BETHEL, Justice. A Gwinnett County jury found Herminio Nicolas Reyes guilty of malice murder and other offenses in connection with the stabbing death of Sadot Ozuna-Carmona.1 Reyes appeals, arguing that the evidence was insufficient to support the jury’s verdict on the malice murder count, that the trial court erred by admitting certain evidence pursuant to the “residual” exception to the hearsay rule, and that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance in several 1The crimes occurred on August 1, 2004. Reyes was indicted by a Gwinnett…