Court Opinion

ID: 9781574
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 16:52:30.26842+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:34:28.217077
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 we should merely “assum[e]” that plain error review is proper in this case, as the majority does in Division 4, see Maj. Op. at 104, thereby again leaving the conflict in our case law on this issue unresolved. Accordingly, I do not join that portion of the majority opinion, although I join the remainder of the opinion and the judgment.