HEAD v. STRIPLING

No. S03A0525.

590 S.E.2d 122 (2003)

277 Ga. 403

HEAD v. STRIPLING.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied November 26, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hon. Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Karen Anderson Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., James David McDade, Dist. Atty., for appellant.

Diane Green Kelly, Mitchell D. Raup, David M. Gossett, Carl John Summers, Chicago, IL, for appellees.

James C. Bonner, Jr., Sarah L. Gerwig, Michael M. Mears, Holly Lynn Geerdes, Multi-County Public Defender, Hon. Richard Weber, Jr., American Civil Liberties Union, John Richard Martin, Nicholas A. Lotito, Atlanta, amicus appellee.


HUNSTEIN, Justice.

In October 1988 Alphonso Stripling shot four of his fellow employees at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant during an armed robbery. Two of his victims died. He then carjacked a getaway car at gunpoint from the parking lot of a nearby restaurant and crashed it while being chased by the police. At his 1989 trial, Stripling's counsel presented evidence of mental illness and mental retardation. The jury, while convicting Stripling of the crimes arising...

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