WOODS v. STATE

S21A0862.

862 S.E.2d 526 (2021)

WOODS v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: August 24, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason Michael McLendon , McLendon Law Firm, LLC, 1800 Peachtree Street, Suite 300, Matthew Kyle Winchester , Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester, 1800 Peachtree Street, NW, Suite 300, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Meghan Hobbs Hill , Assistant Attorney General, Department of Law, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Bradfield M. Shealy , District Attorney, James Bennett Threlkeld , Senior A.D.A., Michelle Thomas Harrison , A.D.A., Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, P.O. Box 99, Valdosta, Georgia 31603-0099, for Appellee.


After a 2013 jury trial, Alexander Woods III was convicted of five counts of malice murder and given five consecutive life sentences in connection with the 2004 shooting deaths of four members of the Resendez family and their housekeeper. Woods' motion for new trial was denied, and he appeals, enumerating nine alleged instances...

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