MITCHELL v. STATE

S19A1147.

838 S.E.2d 847 (2020)

MITCHELL v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: February 10, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Shepherd West , David West & Associates, 125 Church Street, Suite 315, Marietta, Georgia 30060, 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, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater , District Attorney, Alonza Whitaker , A.D.A., Benjamin E. Gephardt , Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, 100 Tenth Street, Columbus, Georgia 31902-1340, for Appellee.


Sandy Mitchell, Jr., was convicted of malice murder and other crimes in connection with the shooting death of Byron Brown.1 On appeal, Mitchell contends that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to object to certain trial testimony from a detective in this case on the grounds...

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