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BAKER v. STATE

S24A0560 S24A0582.

907 S.E.2d 824 (2024)

BAKER v. The STATE. Laguerre v. The State.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: October 22, 2024.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney Samuel Zell, Zell & Zell, P.C., 1111 Bull Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401, for Appellant in S24A0560.

Steven Eric Phillips, Lauren Beth Shubow, Office of the Public Defender, 100 Peachtree Street NW, Suite 1600, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Appellant in S24A0582.

Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Assistant Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General, Faith Donnell Worley, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Fani T. Willis, District Attorney, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Deputy D.A., Burke Olivia Doherty, Alex Martin Bernick, Fulton County District Attorney's Office, 136 Pryor Street SW, Third Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Appellee.

Prentice Baker and Verlaine Laguerre were convicted of malice murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony for the shooting death of Matthew Hardeman. The evidence at trial showed that on the day of the shooting, Hardeman and Laguerre got into a fistfight in front of the home of Andrew "Cali" Ellis, a mutual...

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