Ballard v. State v. State

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• holding that the evidence was sufficient to support conviction for felony murder predicated on aggravated assault, relying, in part, on evidence that the defendant’s DNA was on a water bottle in the hotel room, which placed the defendant at the crime scene
• same, with past convictions for aggravated assault and burglary with intent to commit aggravated assault
• same, with past convictions for aggravated assault and burglary with intent to commit aggravated assault
• A motion to bifurcate “should be denied where the count charging [unlawful firearm possession] might serve as the underlying felony supporting a felony murder conviction.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• any error in counsel’s failure to stipulate to convicted felon status, based on convictions for aggravated assault and burglary, did not result in prejudice given overwhelming evidence of his guilt
• no prejudice shown from trial counsel’s failure to stipulate to defendant’s convicted-felon status given that the prior convictions were not of the nature likely to inflame the jury’s passions and the evidence of the defendant’s guilt was strong

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).