JOHNSON v. STATE

S17A1105.

805 S.E.2d 890 (2017)

JOHNSON v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: October 2, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin Kwashnak , PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE, 510 West Lamar Street, Americus, Georgia 31709, for Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Michael Alexander Oldham , Assistant Attorney General, DEPARTMENT OF LAW, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Plez Higdon Hardin , District Attorney, SOUTHWESTERN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, P.O. Box 1328, Americus, Georgia 31709, Lewis Ramon Lamb , Chief A.D.A., SOUTHWESTERN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, 506 West Lamar Street, P.O. Box 1328, Americus, Georgia 31708-1607, for Appellee.


After a six-day trial, a jury found Craig Johnson guilty of malice murder and other crimes related to the stabbing death of Nicole Judge. All of the original verbatim trial transcript materials were later destroyed in a fire at the court reporter's house. The State ultimately provided Johnson with a 14-page,

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