Legal Opinion
Rice v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 29, 2012No. S12P1309PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENHAM, Justice.
A jury convicted Lawrence Rice of murdering Connie Mincher and her 14-year-old son, Ethan Mincher, and of burglary.1 The jury found multiple statutory aggravating circumstances related to each of the murders and recommended a death sentence for each of the murders, which the trial court imposed. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.
1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the State, the evidence presented at trial showed the following. Lawrence Rice met Trevor Mincher in or around 1990, when Rice began working at a video *192production company under Mr. Mincher’s…
2Cases cited53 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Ring v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Malcolm v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
- Smith v. FrancisSupreme Court of Georgia · 1985
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3Cited by23 opinions
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