• State v. Reid

    Publication Date: 2015-04-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ray, William M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, and Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tony Axam AxamLaw, Bernard Taylor, Kacy McCaffrey, Michael Brown Alston Bird LLP, Atlanta, Cinque Axam Axam Roberts Legal Group, John Morgan, John Petrey, and Danielle Roberts, Decatur, for appellees.

    Case Number: A15A0537

    The trial court erred in granting the defendants new trials, since it failed to properly fulfill its affirmative statutory duty to independently weigh the trial evi