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BIRT v. STATE

S89A0068.

259 Ga. 800 (1990)

387 S.E.2d 879

BIRT v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 7, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Millard C. Farmer, Jr., Joseph M. Nursey, Carla J. Friend, for appellant.

Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, for appellee.

HUNT, Justice.

Billy Sunday Birt was convicted of two murders and given the death sentence in 1975 in Jefferson County. Birt v. State, 236 Ga. 815 (225 S.E.2d 248) (1976). After subsequent habeas corpus proceedings, those sentences were vacated and the case remanded to Jefferson County for resentencing. In March 1989, Millard Farmer, Joe Nursey, and Carla Friend [hereinafter Farmer], Birt's...

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