Legal Opinion
Hanifa v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 21, 1998No. S98A0628, S98A0629PublishedCited by 148 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Benham, Chief Justice.
Appellants Kareemah Hanifa and Diana Kirk are two of the nine persons charged in a nine-count indictment in connection with the kidnapping and death of Nekita Waller, a fifteen-year-old girl. Appellants and co-indictee Brandon Kenner were tried together; coindictee Ahmond Dunnigan was tried separately; co-indictees Corey Lamar Gaither, Vickie Logan, and Dennis Smith McCrary each pleaded guilty to a variety of charges and testified at Hanifa and Kirk’s trial. The jury returned “guilty but mentally ill” verdicts against Hanifa on seven of the nine counts, and the trial…
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