Cowart v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
NAHMIAS, Justice.
Alex Cowart and John A. Adams appeal their convictions for felony murder and other crimes related to the armed robbery of Sean Giroir, Michael Levi, John Silcox, andMiles Antle and the subsequent shootings that killed Giroir and injured Levi. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm Cowart’s convictions but remand his case for resentencing because he was improperly sentenced for two felony murder convictions based on the death of a single victim. And we reverse Adams’s convictions due to the erroneous and harmful admission of evidence bolstering the testimony of the key…
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