Frazierv.The State
Frazier was convicted of malice murder and related offenses for the shooting death of Corey Echols. He challenged the sufficiency of the evidence, the admission of other-acts evidence, and trial counsel’s failure to request a general justification or coercion instruction. The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed. The evidence, including the circumstances of the shooting, supported the convictions. The court held that the other-acts evidence was admissible for the purposes identified by the trial court and that counsel was not ineffective. The record showed that the jury received a coercion instruction, and Frazier did not show that a different justification instruction would have changed the result. The court rejected the remaining claims and concluded that no individual or cumulative error warranted a new trial.
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