Ellison v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming denial of immunity where trial court explicitly discredited defendant’s testimony about the circumstances of the shooting
• affirming denial of motion for immunity from prosecution where evidence “supported an inference that [appellant] shot [victim] out of anger, to assert dominance, or to avenge past wrongs, rather than in self-defense”
• “To prevail on a motion for immunity under OCGA § 16-3-24.2, a defendant must establish his justification defense by a preponderance of the evidence.”
• given the evidence presented, the trial court was 10 authorized to reject the defendant’s self-serving testimony and conclude he had not met his burden to prove justification

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-07-05· cited 25×
• Gude v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 11×
• Reddick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 8×
• State v. Burton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 5×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-04-18· cited 1×
• State v. Gates
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 1×
• Ashlyn Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-06-28
• Benson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-19
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sifuentes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-11· cited 53×
• Hornbuckle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-27· cited 29×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 21×
• Hughes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-07-07· cited 13×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 11×