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FINNEY v. STATE

S20A1469.

855 S.E.2d 578 (2021)

FINNEY v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: March 1, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford Louis Kurlander , Georgia Public Defender Council — Appellate Division, Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit Conflict Defender's Office, 4380 Memorial Drive, Decatur, Georgia 30032, for Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Leslie Anna Coots , Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Karl David Cooke, Jr. , District Attorney, Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, 661 Mulberry Street, 2nd Fl, Grand Building, Macon, Georgia 31201, Sandra G. Matson , A.D.A., Dorothy Vinson Hull , A.D.A., Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, 661 Mulberry Street, 3rd Floor Grand Building, Macon, Georgia 31201, Shelley T. Milton , A.D.A., Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, 661 Mulberry Street, Macon, Georgia 31201, for Appellee.

Appellant Benjamin Finney, who was a drug dealer in Macon, was convicted of felony murder and two firearm crimes based on the fatal shooting in 2008 of Gwendolyn Cole, the mother of one of Appellant's rivals. In his appeal to this Court, Appellant argues, among other things, that the trial court erred by admitting hearsay...

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