Thorpe v. State

HUNSTEIN, Presiding Justice.

Appellant Michael Thorpe was convicted and sentenced to life plus forty consecutive years in prison for murder and related charges arising from a botched attempted robbery in downtown Savannah. Thorpe challenges his convictions and sentences on multiple grounds; finding no error, we affirm.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence adduced at trial reflected that, in the early morning hours of December 24, 2005, appellant, co-defendant Wilson, and appellant’s uncle, Sean Thorpe, were riding around downtown Savannah in a grey Ford Taurus driven…