Michael Coleman was convicted of murdering his partner of nearly 15 years, Tina Mune-ath, who was pistol-whipped and shot in the back as she ran from a vehicle outside a Fulton County emissions testing center, after her daughter identified him as the assailant in surveillance footage. The Supreme Court of Georgia unanimously affirmed, holding that surveillance footage and eyewitness testimony were direct evidence that defeated his claim that the case was wholly circumstantial, that his ineffective-assistance claims failed because he identified no specific deficiency, and that his jury-composition and juror-bias claims were waived. The case is significant for its concurrences. Chief Justice Peterson, joined by seven other justices, explained that under Hart v. State the Court lacks direct appellate jurisdiction over non-death-penalty murder cases and has decided them only as a voluntary practice dating to State v. Thornton in 1984. Citing efficiency, the burden of making every murder appeal binding precedent, and the Court’s constitutional duties, the concurrence announced that direct appeals in non-death-penalty murder cases docketed after July 1, 2027, will go to the Court of Appeals, and it noted that the Supreme Court will still decide most pending murder appeals into early 2028. Justice LaGrua joined the Court’s opinion but wrote separately to oppose the change, arguing that the 1983 Constitution gives the Court mandatory jurisdiction over some non-death-penalty murder appeals and that abandoning review of these grave cases is a policy error.