CALDWELL v. EDENFIELD

S23A0260, S23X0261.

890 S.E.2d 238 (2023)

CALDWELL v. EDENFIELD; and vice versa.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: June 29, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clint Christopher Malcolm , Assistant Attorney General, Tayo Popoola , Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Sabrina Dawn Graham , Assistant Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334-1300, for Appellant in S23A0260.

James Francis Bogan, III , Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, 1100 Peachtree Street, Suite 2800, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Vanessa J. Carroll , Southern Center for Human Rights, 60 Walton Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Anna Marie Arceneaux , Georgia Resource Center, 104 Marietta St NW, Suite 260, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Bennett Richardson , Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, 1100 Peachtree Street, Suite 2800, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Appellee in S23A0260.

James Francis Bogan, III , Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, 1100 Peachtree Street, Suite 2800, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Vanessa J. Carroll , Southern Center for Human Rights, 60 Walton Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Anna Marie Arceneaux , Georgia Resource Center, 104 Marietta St NW, Suite 260, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Bennett Richardson , Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, 1100 Peachtree Street, Suite 2800, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Appellant in S23X0261.

Clint Christopher Malcolm , Assistant Attorney General, Tayo Popoola , Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Sabrina Dawn Graham , Assistant Attorney General, Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 303344300, for Appellee in S23X0261.


In 2009, a jury convicted David Edenfield for the 2007 sexual assault and murder of six-year-old Christopher Barrios, and the jury imposed a death sentence for the murder. Lead trial counsel, joined by other attorneys, represented Edenfield on direct appeal, and, in June of 2013, this Court affirmed Edenfield's convictions and sentences...

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