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SMITH v. STATE

Nos. S08A1496, S08A1581.

669 S.E.2d 98 (2008)

SMITH v. The STATE. Lightburn v. The State.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

November 3, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Steel, Atlanta, for appellant.

Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming, District Attorney, Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Roderick B. Wilkerson, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Gerard Bradley Kleinrock, Decatur, GA, for Lightburn.

SEARS, Chief Justice.

In 2007, a DeKalb County jury convicted Anthony Maurice Smith and Vernon Lightburn of malice murder and related crimes arising out of the shooting death of Rodney Gresham and the kidnapping of his live-in bodyguard and chef, Bosheal "Bo" Morris. Smith and Lightburn claim their trial attorneys rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object to improper argument in the prosecutor's closing and the presence in the...

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