STATE v. WORSLEY

No. S13A0132.

745 S.E.2d 617 (2013)

293 Ga. 315

The STATE v. WORSLEY.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

July 1, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia Anne Fessenden Slater , Dist. Atty., William Donald Kelly Jr. , Asst. Dist. Atty., Office of the District Attorney, Columbus, Samuel S. Olens , Atty. Gen., Sabrina Dawn Graham , Asst. Atty. Gen., Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Dana Elizabeth Weinberger , Asst. Atty. Gen., Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, for appellants

William J. Mason , Columbus, Georgia, for appellee.


BLACKWELL, Justice.

Appellee Johnnie Worsley was tried by a Muscogee County jury and convicted of the rape and murder of his seventeen-year-old stepdaughter, Yameika Bell, and the murder of his wife, Flora Worsley. For each murder, Appellee was sentenced to death. Nearly fourteen years later, the trial court granted a new trial to Appellee with respect to his death sentences, finding that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel in the sentencing phase of...

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