Legal Opinion

Brown v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided October 6, 2014No. S14A0800, S14A0801PublishedCited by 28 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Nahmias, Justice.

Rickey Brown and Mecco McKinney appeal their convictions for murder and a firearm offense related to a gun fight between them and co-indictee Teon Richardson that resulted in the death of an innocent bystander, four-year-old Sedriana Rosser. Finding no reversible error as to any of the many claims raised by one or both of the Appellants, we affirm in both cases.

1. Viewed in the light most favorable to their verdicts, the evidence presented at trial showed the following. About three weeks before the shooting at issue here, Brown, McKinney, and Richardson got into a physical…

2Cases cited32 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Vega v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2009
  3. Chandler v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1991
  4. Head v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1984
  5. Andrews v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1943

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3Cited by28 opinions

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