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DAVIS v. STATE

S19A1432.

838 S.E.2d 263 (2020)

DAVIS, v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: January 27, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Betsey L. Tate , Office of the Appellate Defender, Georgia, Public Defender Council, 540 W. Lamar Street, 2nd Floor, Americus, Georgia 31709, for Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Katherine DeRosa Emerson , Assistant Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Robert Brandon Faircloth, A.D.A., Louie Craig Fraser , District Attorney, Dublin Judicial Circuit , District Attorney's Office, P.O. Box 2029, Dublin, Georgia 31040, for Appellee.

In 2012, Sylvester Davis, Jr. was convicted of malice murder in connection with the shooting death of Marquis Wadley. Davis appeals, arguing that the trial court abused its discretion in admitting certain testimony by a Georgia Bureau of Investigation ("GBI") agent and in denying his motion for a mistrial, and that, to the extent...

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