DEBELBOT v. STATE

S19A1474 S19A1475.

839 S.E.2d 513 (2020)

DEBELBOT v. The STATE. Debelbot v. The State.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: February 28, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Moffett Flournoy, III , Georgia Public Defender Council, 420 10th Street, Columbus, Georgia 31901-0000, Carrie Sperling , Wisconsin Innocence Project: University of Wisconsin Law School, 975 Bascom Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, for Appellant in S19A1474.

James C. Bonner, Jr. , Jimmonique R. S. Rodgers , Georgia Public Defender Council, Suite 600, 104 Marietta Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Brandon A. Bullard , Office of the Appellate Defender, 104 Marietta Street, NW, Suite 600, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, A. James Anderson Robins Kaplan LLP, 4360 Davidson Avenue, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30319, Anna Carr Halsey , Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP, 999 Peachtree Street, NE, Suite 2300, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Appellant. in S19A1475.

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, Sadhana Pandey Dailey , A.D.A., Julia Anne Fessenden Slater , District Attorney, Alonza Whitaker , A.D.A., Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, P.O. Box 1340, Columbus, Georgia 31902, for Appellee.


Albert and Ashley Debelbot were tried by a Muscogee County jury and convicted of the murder of their infant daughter, McKenzy. Following the denial of their motions for new trial, the Debelbots appealed, asserting, among other claims of error, that the evidence was legally insufficient to sustain their convictions and that they...

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