ELKINS v. STATE

S19A0331.

830 S.E.2d 217 (2019)

ELKINS v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: June 28, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Josh David Moore , Georgia Capital Defenders, 104 Marietta St. NW, Suite 900 Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Appellant.

Curtis Allen Garrett, Jr. , Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, 1100 Peachtree Street, Suite 2800, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-4528, Sarah E. Geraghty , Patrick Mulvaney , Tamara Serwer Caldas , Southern Center for Human Rights, 83 Poplar Street, NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Amicus Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy, Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Ashleigh Dene Headrick , Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Andrew J. Ekonomou , Thomas Edwars Buscemi , Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Glynn County Courthouse, 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.


In 2013, Appellant De'Marquise Kareem Elkins was convicted of malice murder and other crimes in connection with the shooting death of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago and the shooting of the baby's mother, Sherry West, as well as the shooting ten days earlier of Pastor Wilfredo Calix-Flores behind his church. The trial court sentenced...

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