NUCKLES v. STATE

S20G0492.

853 S.E.2d 81 (2020)

NUCKLES v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: December 21, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerard Bradley Kleinrock , Office of The Public Defender, 320 Church Street, Decatur, Georgia 30030, Attorneys for the Appellant.

Jason Edward Bring , Glenn P. Hendrix , Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, 171 17th Street, N.W., Suite 2100, Atlanta, Georgia 30363-1031, Attorneys for the Amicus Appellant.

Jason Matthew Rea , A.D.A., Sherry Boston , District Attorney, Deborah D. Wellborn , A.D.A., Jeanne Marie Canavan , A.D.A., Maria Olabosipo Banjo , DeKalb County District Attorney's Office, 556 N. McDonough Street, 7th Floor, Decatur, Georgia 30030, Robert Wright Smith, Jr. , William D. Johnson , A.D.A., Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, 1590 Adamson Parkway, 4th Floor, Morrow, Georgia 30260, Shannon Glover Wallace , District Attorney, Cherokee County District Attorney's Office, 90 North Street, Suite 390, Canton, Georgia 30114, Attorneys for the Appellee.

Jarome Gautreaux , Gautreaux Law, LLC, 778 Mulberry Street, Macon, Georgia 31201, Caleb Frank Walker , Katherine L. McArthur, LLC, 6055 Lakeside Commons Drive, Suite 400, Macon, Georgia 31210, Lyle Griffin Warshauer , Warshauer Law Group, P.C., 2740 Bert Adams Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30339, Attorneys for the Amicus Appellee.


Wanda Nuckles was charged with depriving James Dempsey, an elder person, of essential services and concealing his death. Prior to her trial on those charges, Nuckles filed a motion seeking to exclude a video recording captured on a camera concealed in Dempsey's room at the residential rehabilitation center where Nuckles worked...

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