MITCHUM v. STATE

No. S19A0554.

834 S.E.2d 65 (2019)

MITCHUM v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: October 7, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore , Mathew Gilbo , Ezra Addison Gantt , Mercer Law School, Andrea Lynn Clark , Gabrielle Lynn Biggs , Mercer Habeas Project, 1021 Georgia Avenue, Macon, Georgia 31207, Joseph Scott Key , Miller & Key, PA, 79 Lawrenceville Street, McDonough, Georgia 30253, for Appellant.

Billy Joe Nelson, Jr. , A.D.A., John Thomas Durden, Jr. , District Attorney, Atlantic Judicial Circuit, District Attorney's Office, 945 E.G. Miles Parkway Hinesville, Georgia 31313, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, for Appellee.


This case concerns a challenge to a criminal conviction raised in an extraordinary motion for new trial. Specifically, we address whether a post-appeal challenge to a criminal conviction based on alleged improper communications with the jury that occurred during the defendant's trial...

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