assistance claim is therefore without merit. (d) Failure to object to the denial of the right to allocution. Lastly, Pepe-Frazier contends that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to object to the trial court’s denial of his right to allocution during sentencing. Yet again, we disagree. During sentencing, defense counsel made a brief statement on his client’s behalf, describing the defendant’s difficult life and upbringing, before Pepe-Frazier directly addressed the trial court by informing it of the time he had already served with regard to the charges. Then, as the trial court prepared to announce its sentence, PepeFrazier attempted to interrupt the court but was prohibited from doing so when the court said, “It’s my turn, si 856 (2) (a) (676 SE2d 246) (2009) (<HOLDING>). 26 Chancey v. State, 258 Ga. App. 319, 321
holding that guilty verdict in first trial on what was submitted as second lesserincluded offense despite its not having been lesserincluded offense as matter of law precluded subsequent prosecution for what had been charged as greater offenses in first trial holding that where jury was instructed on both a greater offense and lesserincluded offense and the jury convicted on the lesserincluded offense the double jeopardy provision prohibited retrial on the greater offense holding that failure to give lesserincluded charge of simple assault as lesserincluded offense of aggravated assault on police officer was reversible error holding that had trial counsel requested charge on lesserincluded offense of child molestation to charged offense of aggravated child molestation trial court would have been required to give the charge on the lesserincluded offense when defendant testified that during incident in question he was hugging the victims stomach not performing oral sex holding that counsel was not ineffective in failing to request a charge on the lesserincluded offense when the evidence showed either the commission of the completed offense as charged or the commission of no offense such that the defendant was not entitled to a charge on the lesser offense