Legal Opinion
Sealey v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 1, 2004No. S03P1479PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Thompson, Justice.
A jury found Richard Lester Sealey guilty of the malice murders of John and Fannie Mae Tubner and 17 related crimes. The jury recommended a death sentence for the murders, after finding beyond a reasonable doubt that the murders were both outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible, or inhuman in that they involved the torture of the victims, depravity of mind, and the aggravated battery of the victims, that the murders were both committed for the purpose of receiving money or any other thing of monetary value, that the murder of Mr. Tubner was committed while Sealey was engaged…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Malcolm v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
- Isaacs v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1989
- DeYoung v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1997
- Frazier v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1987
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3Cited by36 opinions
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