Meyner v. Turtletaub

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence that the crimes occurred in the front yard of a home across the street from the victim’s Fulton County address was sufficient to prove that the crimes were committed in Fulton County
• vacating “both felony murder convictions and sentences and remand[ing] the case for the trial court to enter a conviction and sentence on only one of them and to adjust any affected convictions and sentences accordingly”
• “An aggressor is not entitled to a finding of justification.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• counsel reasonably could have chosen not to object to a brief comment during testimony about the defendant’s invocation of his right to remain silent so as not to draw attention to it
• “[A] jury is free to disbelieve the defendant’s evidence of self-defense.”
• “The fact that trial counsel failed to articulate any strategic reasons for [her] failure to object makes no difference, however, because our inquiry is focused on the objective reasonableness of counsel’s performance, not counsel’s subjective state of mind.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).