Evans v. State

Evans v. State
No. A24D0070 (Ga. Ct. App. Sep. 25, 2023)
The trial court denied Evans' motion for new trial, and the Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed on appeal. Evans v. State, 275 Ga. 541 (570 S.E.2d 331) (2002). In June 2023, Evans filed an extraordinary motion for new trial.
Payne v. State
329 Ga. App. 625 (Ga. Ct. App. 2014) Cited 1 times
Criminal - Other
Holding that a strategy of "avoiding an objection that would draw the jury’s attention to statement, and instead challenging the testimony through cross-examination cannot be found to be outside the wide range of reasonable professional assistance" (punctuation omitted)
” 275 Ga. 541(2), 570 S.E.2d 331 (2002) (“As a general rule answers constituting mere conclusions, surmise or conjecture should be excluded from evidence.”) (citation and punctuation omitted).
McMorris v. State
263 Ga. App. 630 (Ga. Ct. App. 2003) Cited 3 times
The trial court has broad discretion regarding recall of witnesses or reopening evidence and no abuse of that discretion has been shown by McMorris. Evans v. State, 275 Ga. 541, 542(3) (570 S.E,2d 331) (2002); see Watkins v. State, 253 Ga. App. 382, 384(1) ( 559 S.E.2d 133) (2002). 4. The third enumeration, that the trial court erred in admitting the colposcope picture, has been fully discussed above.