Court Opinion

ID: 9781147
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 16:15:15.410445+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:34:18.999138
License: Public Domain

NAHMIAS, Justice,
concurring specially.
For the reasons given in my special concurrence in Collier v. State, 288 Ga. 756 (707 SE2d 102) (2011), I believe that OCGA § 17-8-58 (b) mandates that appellate courts apply plain error review to enumerated errors regarding jury charges that were not objected to at trial as required by OCGA § 17-8-58 (a). I therefore do not agree that the Court should merely “ ‘assum[e]’ ” that plain error review is proper, as the majority does in Divisions 2 and 4, thereby leaving — yet again — the conflict in our case law on this issue unresolved. Accordingly, I do not join those portions of the majority opinion, although I join the remainder of the opinion and the judgment.