Legal Opinion
Sears v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 15, 1999No. S98P1890PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Thompson, Justice.
A jury convicted Demarcus Ali Sears of kidnapping with bodily injury and armed robbery, and imposed a sentence of death. The evidence adduced at trial showed that Sears and Phillip Williams kidnapped the victim, Gloria Wilbur, as she left a supermarket in Cobb County, Georgia; that Sears assaulted Ms. Wilbur with brass knuckles, put her in her car and drove north; that Sears raped Ms. Wilbur in Tennessee; and that he killed her in Kentucky by stabbing her with a knife.
In Sears v. State, 268 Ga. 759 (493 SE2d 180) (1997), we affirmed Sears’ convictions, but remanded the case…
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