Legal Opinion
Perkins v. Hall
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 18, 2011No. S10A1754PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Nahmias, Justice.
In 1997, a jury convicted David Aaron Perkins of the murder of Herbert Ryals III, and of related offenses, and it sentenced Perkins to death for the murder. This Court affirmed unanimously on direct appeal, for which Perkins had the same counsel. See Perkins v. State, 269 Ga. 791 (505 SE2d 16) (1998). With new counsel, Perkins filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on September 27, 1999, which was denied more than nine years later, on October 10, 2008. This Court granted Perkins’s application for a certificate of probable cause to appeal and requested that the parties…
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