Publication Date: 2015-06-08
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Melton, Harold D.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Long D. Vo Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Kathryn L. Powers, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Meghan H. Hill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S15A0379
The trial court properly declined to merge the aggravated assault and felony murder counts for sentencing purposes, since each required proof of a fact the other did not and they were separate and d