BROOKINS v. STATE

S22P0556.

879 S.E.2d 466 (2022)

BROOKINS v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: October 4, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Josh David Moore , Office of the Georgia Capital Defender, 104 Marietta St. NW, Suite 900, Atlanta Georgia 30303, Thea Adele Delage , Office of the Georgia Capital Defender, 104 Marietta St. NW, Suite 600, Atlanta Georgia 30303, Katherine L. Moss , Michael Boland Admirand , Southern Center for Human Rights, 60 Walton Street NW, Atlanta Georgia 30303, for Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy Attorney General, Matthew Blackwell Crowder , Assistant Attorney General, Sabrina Dawn Graham , Assistant Attorney General, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta Georgia 30334-1300, Tuttle Wright Barksdale III , Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, P.O. Box 1209, Gray Georgia 31032, Sydney Elizabeth Segers , A.D.A., Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, 121 N. Wilkinson Street, Suite 314, Milledgeville Georgia 31061, for Appellee.

Anna Marie Arceneaux , Georgia Resource Center, 104 Marietta St NW, Suite 260, Atlanta Georgia 30303, for Other Party.


A jury found Brian Duane Brookins guilty of the murders of Sandra Suzanne Brookins and Samantha Rae Giles and of related crimes. The jury declined in its guilt/innocence phase verdict to find Brookins "mentally retarded" or "mentally ill."1 At the conclusion of the sentencing phase, the jury found multiple...

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