Jones v. Medlin

HINES, Chief Justice.

This Court granted applications for certificates of probable cause from Mark Jason Jones, Kenneth Eric Gardiner, and Dominic Brian Lucci to appeal the denials of their petitions for writs of habeas corpus. The cases are consolidated, and for the reasons that follow, we reverse in each.

Jones, Gardiner, and Lucci were tried and found guilty of malice murder in the shooting death of Stanley Jackson, as well as of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony. See Gardiner v. *556State, 264 Ga. 329 (444 SE2d 300) (1994). The three defendants were Army servicemen stationed…