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LAGUERRE v. STATE

S17A0646.

799 S.E.2d 736 (2017)

LAGUERRE v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: May 1, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Renee Regard Rockwell , 3481 Lakeside Drive, Suite 2802, Atlanta, Georgia 30326-1338, Dana J. Norman , THE BLASKA LAW FIRM, 8565 Dunwoody Place, Building 15, Suite A, Atlanta, Georgia 30350-3332, for Appellant.

Paul L. Howard, Jr. , District Attorney, FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, 136 Pryor Street, S.W., 4th Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr. , Chief A.D.A., FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, 136 Pryor Street, S.W., 3rd Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, DEPARTMENT OF LAW, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, for Appellee.

Verlaine Laguerre appeals the denial of his plea of former jeopardy on the ground that his retrial for murder and related crimes would violate the federal and state constitutional prohibitions against double jeopardy. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

On March 20, 2012, a Fulton County grand jury indicted Laguerre...

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