Publication Date: 2013-10-24
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cynthia W. Harrison Harrison Law Firm LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Sheila E. Gallow, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ryan A. Kolb, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S13A1051
Although the prosecutor stated that the case was the worst she had ever seen, the statement did not demand a mistrial as she was merely preparing the jury for the gruesome nature of the evidence tha