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ZANT v. PITTS

S93A1151, S93X1159.

263 Ga. 529 (1993)

436 S.E.2d 4

ZANT v. PITTS; and vice versa.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied November 19, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, C. A. Benjamin Woolf, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Brian Mendelsohn, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Mitchell D. Raup, for appellee.

FLETCHER, Justice.

Pitts was convicted of murder and other crimes and sentenced to death. His conviction and death sentence were affirmed on direct appeal in Pitts v. State, 259 Ga. 745 (386 S.E.2d 351) (1989). Pitts thereafter filed a petition for habeas corpus raising a number of issues, including ineffectiveness of counsel. The habeas court found that trial counsel were generally effective...

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