State v. R.G.W.

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• holding that, “even assuming that trial counsel rendered deficient performance,” the appellant did not meet “his burden to show that he was prejudiced by any failing of counsel”
• affirming defendant’s aggravated-assault conviction given evidence that defendant fired handgun in the direction of four people
• “Mere speculation on the defendant’s part is insufficient to establish Strickland prejudice.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “‘It is the role of the jury to resolve conflicts in the evidence and to determine the credibility of witnesses, and the resolution of such conflicts adversely to the defendant does not render the evidence insufficient.’” (citation omitted)
• “It is the role of the jury to resolve conflicts in the evidence and to determine the credibility of witnesses, and the resolution of such conflicts adversely to the defendant does not 6 render the evidence insufficient.”
• \[I]t is not inconceivable that [one defendant] killed [the victim] as part of an attempt to rob him; the jury was authorized to infer that the defendants panicked and thought it better to run rather than pause to search [the victim's] pockets.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).