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EARNEST v. STATE

S92A0820.

262 Ga. 494 (1992)

422 S.E.2d 188

EARNEST v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 30, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Hauptman, John A. Beall IV, for appellant.

David McDade, District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, C. A. Benjamin Woolf, Staff Attorney, for appellee.

CLARKE, Chief Justice.

Malisa Earnest, Terry Belcher, and Robert MacIntyre strangled Teresa Simmons to death. At separate jury trials, all three defendants were convicted of malice murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Earnest appeals. We affirm the conviction.1

Earnest and Teresa Simmons, ages 17 and 15 respectively, ran away from their group home on January 11, 1988. They met Belcher after hitch-hiking to Atlanta. The two...

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