SEARS v. STATE

No. S97P0804.

493 S.E.2d 180 (1997)

268 Ga. 759

SEARS v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied December 19, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlton Crow Carter, Canton, J. Michael Treadaway, Ray Gary, Jr., Marietta, Tanya Greene, Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, for Demarcus Ali Sears.

Thomas James Charron, Dist. Atty., Debra Halpern Bernes, Asst. Dist. Atty., Nancy I. Jordan, Asst. Dist. Atty., Jack E. Mallard, Asst. Dist. Atty., Cobb County District Attorney's Office, Marietta, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Paige Reese Whitaker, Asst. Atty. Gen., Wesley Scott Horney, Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, for the State.

Joseph L. Chambers, Sr., Prosecuting Attorneys Counsel, Smyrna, Stephen C. Bayliss, Georgia Resource Center, Michael Mears, MultiCounty Public Defender, Atlanta, for other interested parties.


FLETCHER, Presiding Justice.

A jury convicted Demarcus Ali Sears of the armed robbery and kidnapping with bodily injury of Gloria Ann Wilbur.1 The jury found as aggravating circumstances that the kidnapping with bodily injury was committed while Sears was engaged in the capital felonies of armed robbery, rape, and murder, and that the kidnapping with bodily injury was outrageously vile, wantonly vile, horrible, and inhuman, in that it...

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