Legal Opinion
Regent v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided June 6, 2016No. S15G1829PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUNSTEIN, Justice.
Appellant Steven Regent pled guilty to one count of aggravated assault and one count of aggravated battery arising out of an incident in which he twice, in quick succession, slashed his girlfriend’s throat. The Court of Appeals affirmed Regent’s conviction and sentence for each offense, see Regent v. State, 333 Ga. App. 350 (774 SE2d 213) (2015), and we granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ conclusion that Regent’s convictions do not merge. We now hold that Regent’s conviction for aggravated assault merged with his conviction for aggravated battery, and we…
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