BARNETT v. STATE

S16A1892.

796 S.E.2d 653 (2017)

BARNETT v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: February 6, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin Robert Gough , The Gough Firm, PC, P.O. Box 898, Brunswick, Georgia 31521, for Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jason Matthew Rea , Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334-1300, Andrew J. Ekonomou , Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, 701 H Street, Box 301, Brunswick, Georgia 31520, Jacquelyn Lee Johnson , District Attorney, Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, P.O. Box 369, Woodbine, Georgia 31569, for Appellee.

Therese S. Barnes , Georgia Supreme Court, 244 Washington Street, Room 572, Atlanta, Georgia 30334, for Other Party.


Appellant Steven Barnett was convicted of malice murder in the stabbing death of George "Bubba" Bennett.1 The trial court denied Barnett's amended motion for new trial, and he now appeals, contending that he received ineffective assistance of counsel and that the trial judge should have recused herself...

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