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Appellant Joshua Bernard Ferguson was convicted of murder and related offenses in connection with the stabbing deaths of two victims in May 2009. Ferguson appeals, asserting insufficiency of the evidence, erroneous exclusion of evidence, and ineffective assistance of counsel. Finding no error, we affirm.1

Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdicts, the evidence adduced at trial established as follows. In the early morning hours of May 20, 2009, a Richmond County Sheriff’s deputy stopped to assist three individuals who had been summoned to help an injured friend. The deputy followed them to a nearby apartment, its door ajar, and discovered the two deceased victims, Rodney Crane and Jesse Haynes, both of whom had been stabbed and cut multiple times. Another officer followed a trail of blood from the victims to an upstairs apartment, whose occupant refused him entry. A SWAT team kicked in the door, and officers entered, observing more blood inside. The officers determined that the occupant was locked in the bathroom and eventually persuaded him to unlock the door. In the bathroom was Ferguson, bleeding from a cut on his hand.

 
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