STATE v. GOFF

S20A0248.

840 S.E.2d 359 (2020)

The STATE, v. GOFF.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: March 13, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, DEPARTMENT OF LAW, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Joshua Bradley Smith , A.D.A., Natalie Spires Paine , District Attorney, AUGUSTA JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, 735 James Brown Blvd., Suite 2400, Augusta, Georgia 30901, for Appellant.

Sean Gamble , BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE, 11 Judicial Lane, Brunswick, Georgia 31520, George Kevin Davis, II , Katherine Morgan Mason , AUGUSTA JUDICIAL CIRCUIT PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE, 902 Greene Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901, for Appellee.


Todd Goff was convicted of malice murder for killing his girlfriend, Tiffany Nicole Salter.1 The trial court granted Goff a new trial on the basis that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by: (1) advising Goff not to testify; (2) failing to move for a mistrial after the jury heard that...

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