State v. Brown

HUNSTEIN, Justice.

In this pre-trial appeal pursuant to OCGA § 5-7-1 (a) (5), the State seeks reversal of the trial court’s order determining that a federal indictment involving parties unrelated to Appellees will be inadmissible at Appellees’ trial. We find no abuse of discretion, and we therefore affirm.

In August 2014, a DeKalb County grand jury returned a 21-count indictment against Appellees Malcolm Brown, Demetre Edward Mason, Frankland Henderson, Michael Hasker Jenkins, Jaimee E. Harrell, Katrina A. Shardow, and Traon Joshua Turk, on charges of murder, armed robbery, robbery by force,…