Publication Date: 2015-07-02
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Danny L. Durham Durham Crane Law Firm PC, Augusta, and Charles R. Sheppard, Evans, for appellant.
for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Joshua B. Smith District Attorney's Office, Augusta, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason M. Rea, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S15A0587
The trial judge's comments to defense counsel in the jury's presence, although unnecessary, in no way constituted the type of direct comment on the substance or weight of the evidence that runs afou