Georgia Supreme Court Justice David Nahmias once again is questioning the court’s prior case law. This time, he expressed misgivings about precedents that set out when criminal verdicts are so logically inconsistent as to be void.
Nahmias joined the court’s unanimous Nov. 25 decision to grant a new trial to a man who was convicted by a DeKalb County jury of murdering his wife. Last week, Nahmias added his own opinion, saying that, when the right case came along, the court should re-examine its precedents on the subject of mutually exclusive verdicts.
