Ahern v. Littl

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that “any claim that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the party to a crime charge is foreclosed by our determination that the trial court did not err in giving this instruction”
• “[A]n indictment need not charge a defendant under a party to a crime theory in order for the defendant's culpability to be proven in that manner.”
• “A trial court is authorized to give a requested jury instruction if there was produced at trial slight evidence supporting the theory of the jury charge.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• Brodes error harmless where significant evidence corroborated identifications and the trial court instructed the jury that the State had to prove the identity of the perpetrator beyond a reasonable doubt
• Brodes error harmless where significant evidence corroborated identifications and the trial court instructed the jury that the State had to prove the identity of the perpetrator beyond a reasonable doubt
• “A trial court is authorized to give a requested jury instruction if there was produced at trial slight evidence supporting the theory of the jury charge.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).