Supreme Court of Georgia· 10/22/2018

Willis v. State

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820 S.E.2d 640
304 Ga. 686

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holding that the error in the admission of the victim impact evidence was harmless because the State presented strong evidence of the defendant’s guilt
overruling precedent to hold that a defendant is not presumptively harmed by erroneous failure to excuse juror for cause resulting in use of peremptory strike
affirming disqualification order where lawyers were the only witnesses who claimed to have knowledge about what the judge said in chambers
explaining that the test for harm under plain error review “requires a showing of a reasonable probability that the result of the proceeding would have been different, which is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome” (citation and 22 punctuation omitted.)
overruling cases which had held that “causing a defendant to unnecessarily use a peremptory strike on a juror that should have been excused for cause is per se harmful error”
explaining that any trial court error in denying a defendant’s motion to excuse a prospective juror is harmless where “the juror is subsequently removed from the defendant’s twelve- person jury by [the defendant’s] use of a peremptory strike” or by the State’s use of a peremptory strike

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