Following a jury trial, Waseem Daker was found guilty of the malice murder of Karmen Smith, the felony murder of Karmen Smith, burglary, the false imprisonment of Karmen Smith, aggravated assault of Karmen Smith, aggravated battery of Nick Smith, and criminal attempt to commit aggravated stalking of Loretta Spencer Blatz. Daker, acting pro se, appeals, contending that the trial court treated him unfairly, that the trial court erred by denying several of Daker’s motions to recuse, and that this Court’s Rule 20 is unconstitutional.1 We affirm.
1. As an initial matter, in each of his notices of appeal, Daker requested that all transcripts and supporting evidence be omitted from the record on appeal. In S16A1372, Daker’s notice of appeal refers only to the trial court’s “September 26, 2014 order denying defendant’s eighteenth motion to recuse.” In S16A1373, Daker’s notice of appeal refers only to the trial court’s “October 14, 2014 order granting State’s motion to complete the record on appeal” with all transcripts and evidence. The grant of this motion, however, applies to a prior attempted appeal by Daker before this Court and addresses the notices of appeal relating to that prior appeal. It predates and does not address Daker’s current notices of appeal, which create a new appeal for our consideration following the remand of his case on January 29, 2015. Indeed, in the order remanding that case, we instructed Daker that he would be required to file a new notice of appeal following the consideration of certain issues by the trial court. At best, therefore, this notice of appeal raises a moot issue. In S16A1393, Daker’s notice of appeal refers only to the trial court’s “August 2015 order denying his motions to disqualify the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office.” In each of these notices, Daker requests that the trial court’s order be included in the record on appeal, but he explicitly requests that all other evidence and transcripts be omitted. Therefore, as Daker requested, the record in the three consolidated appeals now before this Court omits all transcripts.2
