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RIVERA v. STATE

S23A0429.

893 S.E.2d 696 (2023)

RIVERA, v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: October 11, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lon Powell Kemeness , Lon P. Kemeness , P.O. Box 2581, Tifton, Georgia 31793-7566, for Appellant.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton , Deputy 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, Bradford Lee Rigby , District Attorney, Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, P.O. Box 5510, Cordele, Georgia 31010, Alex Martin Bernick , Fulton County District Attorney's Office, 136 Pryor Street SW, Third Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Appellee.

On May 19, 1996, the body of Bridgett Parker was discovered near an abandoned mobile home in Ben Hill County. Parker's throat had been cut, and she had been raped. Soon after, law enforcement officers identified Appellant Octavious Rivera as a possible suspect in the crimes against Parker, and over the next few weeks, they interviewed...

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