Legal Opinion
Spears v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 16, 2015No. S14P1344PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Blackwell, Justice.
A jury convicted Steven Frederick Spears of murder and other crimes, all in connection with the killing of Sherri Holland. The jury found the existence of two statutory aggravating circumstances and recommended a death sentence for the murder. See OCGA § 17-10-30 (b). For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the convictions and sentences already imposed in this case, we vacate the erroneous merger of the two burglary counts, and we remand for the trial court to impose an appropriate sentence on the burglary count for which Spears has not yet been sentenced.
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2Cases cited43 opinions
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