Legal Opinion
State v. Towns
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 21, 2019No. S19A0557PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
307 Ga. 351
FINAL COPY S19A0557. THE STATE v. TOWNS. BLACKWELL, Justice. On March 16, 2015, a Telfair County grand jury indicted Ronnie Adrian Towns, charging him with murder and armed robbery. Two years later, Towns filed a motion to dismiss the indictment, alleging that the grand jury was unlawfully constituted because some of the grand jurors were not selected randomly. Following an evidentiary hearing, the trial court agreed that two of the grand jurors were not selected randomly, and it dismissed the indictment. The State appeals,1 and we affirm.2 1 The State brought this appeal pursuant…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- Pope v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1986
- Franklin v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1980
- Humphreys v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2010
- Brown v. City of AtlantaSupreme Court of Georgia · 1880
- Al-Amin v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2004
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