State v. Brinkley

316 Ga. 689

FINAL COPY S23A0507. THE STATE v. BRINKLEY. PETERSON, Presiding Justice. Demarcus Brinkley is charged with the kidnapping, attempted rape, and murder of Mariam Khalid Abdulrab. After the police identified him as a suspect for those crimes, Brinkley fled, leading officers in a high speed car chase. During the chase, Brinkley apparently told his mother on the phone that he did not want to pull over because he did not want to go back to prison.1 The trial court granted Brinkley’s pretrial motion to exclude this statement under OCGA § 24-4-403 (“Rule 403”), and the State appealed. See…