Legal Opinion
Ford v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided December 1, 1992No. S92P0547PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Fletcher, Justice.
Ford was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Coweta County. His conviction and sentence were affirmed in Ford v. State, 255 Ga. 81 (335 SE2d 567) (1985). While Ford’s certiorari petition was pending in the U. S. Supreme Court, that Court issued its decisions in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U. S. 79 (106 SC 1712, 90 LE2d 69) (1986) , concerning racial discrimination in the exercise of peremptory challenges, and in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U. S. 314 (107 SC 708, 93 LE2d 649) (1987), which held that Batson would apply retroactively to all cases still pending on direct…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Griffith v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Ford v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Gamble v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1987
- Ford v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1985
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3Cited by44 opinions
- Turner v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1996
- Davis v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
- Hill v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
- Lingo v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
- Tursio v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1993
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