Desantos v. State

3 Citing cases

  1. Coffee v. State

    347 Ga. App. 443 (Ga. Ct. App. 2018)   Cited 1 times

    It is well established in Georgia that "the selection of an impartial jury is the cornerstone of the fairness of trial by jury, and in this process, peremptory strikes are invaluable." DeSantos v. State , 345 Ga. App. 545, 549 (1), 813 S.E.2d 782 (2018) (citation and punctuation omitted); see also Kirkland , 274 Ga. at 779 (1), 560 S.E.2d 6.Compare Nwakanma v. State , 296 Ga. 493, 500 (5), 768 S.E.2d 503 (2015) (trial court’s refusal to strike juror for cause harmless where defendant could not show that removal of the juror cost him one of his peremptory strikes).

  2. Willis v. State

    304 Ga. 686 (Ga. 2018)   Cited 92 times
    Holding that, where the medical examiner testified that "any one of the wounds would have caused [the victim’s] death," separate convictions for aggravated assault and malice murder were not authorized

    6 (2010) ; Maxwell v. State, 282 Ga. 22, 26 (2) (d) & n.12, 644 S.E.2d 822 (2007) ; Sealey v. State, 277 Ga. 617, 620 (7), 593 S.E.2d 335 (2004) ; Wallace v. State, 275 Ga. 879, 881 (3) & n.11, 572 S.E.2d 579 (2002) ; Lance v. State, 275 Ga. 11, 15 (8), 560 S.E.2d 663 (2002) ; Kirkland v. State, 274 Ga. 778, 779-780 (2), 560 S.E.2d 6 (2002) ; Terrell v. State, 271 Ga. 783, 783-784 (1), 523 S.E.2d 294 (1999) ; Menefee v. State, 270 Ga. 540, 542 (2), 512 S.E.2d 275 (1999) ; Walker v. State, 262 Ga. 694, 696 (2), 424 S.E.2d 782 (1993) ; Hayes v. State, 261 Ga. 439, 441 (2), 405 S.E.2d 660 (1991) ; Pope v. State, 256 Ga. 195, 202 (7) (e), 345 S.E.2d 831 (1986).The following cases from the Court of Appeals are also overruled or disapproved to the extent that they relied on or referred to the holdings in Harris and Fortson: Coffee v. State, No. A18A0960, 2018 WL 4698373 at *1-2, 2018 Ga. App. LEXIS 544 at *4-5 (1) (Ga. App. Oct. 1, 2018) ; DeSantos v. State, 345 Ga. App. 545, 549 (1) & n.3, 813 S.E.2d 782 (2018) ; Budhani v. State, 345 Ga. App. 34, 40 (2) n.6, 812 S.E.2d 105 (2018) ; Scarpaci v. Kaufman, 328 Ga. App. 446, 446, 762 S.E.2d 172 (2014) ; Wheeler v. State, 327 Ga. App. 313, 316 (1) n.6, 758 S.E.2d 840 (2014) ; Futch v. State, 326 Ga. App. 394, 398 (1) (c), 756 SE2d 629 (2014) ; Carter v. State, 326 Ga. App. 144, 149 (4), 756 S.E.2d 232 (2014) ; Stolte v. Fagan, 322 Ga. App. 775, 775, (746 S.E.2d 255) (2013) ; Bates v. State, 322 Ga. App. 319, 323 (3) n.3, 744 S.E.2d 841 (2013) ; Ham v. State, 303 Ga. App. 232, 240 (2) (a) n.23, 692 S.E.2d 828 (2010) ; Berry v. State, 302 Ga. App. 31, 33 (1) n.2, 690 S.E.2d 428 (2010) ; Underwood v. State, 283 Ga. App. 638, 639 (1) n.9, 642 S.E.2d 324 (2007) ; Souder v. State, 281 Ga. App. 339, 345 (3) n.4, 636 S.E.2d 68 (2006) ; Moses v. State, 265 Ga. App. 203, 207 (2) (a), 593 S.E.2d 372 (2004) ; Kier v. State, 263 Ga. App. 347, 350 (1), 587 S.E.2d 841 (2003) ; Bennett v. Mullally, 263 Ga. App. 215, 217 (1), 587 S.E.2d 385 (2003) ; Park v. State

  3. Adams v. State

    350 Ga. App. 340 (Ga. Ct. App. 2019)   Cited 1 times

    See Willis , supra. We note that Adams’s reliance on DeSantos v. State , 345 Ga. App. 545, 813 S.E.2d 782 (2018), is misplaced because the juror in DeSantos was not rehabilitated, and because DeSantos was expressly overruled on the pertinent ground by Willis , supra at 706 (n. 3), 820 S.E.2d 640. Adams has shown no basis for reversal. See generally Willis , supra.