Legal Opinion
Jones v. GDCP Warden
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 24, 2014No. 11-14774PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
In 1979, Petitioner Brandon Astor Jones was convicted of malice murder in Georgia state court. Jones and his co-defendant, Van Roosevelt Solomon, killed Roger Tackett, the manager of a Tenneco convenience store, in the course of an armed robbery and burglary. Jones was sentenced to death, but the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia later granted Jones’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus in part and vacated his sentence only. This appeal concerns two errors that, Jones claims, infected his second penalty-phase trial, which also resulted in…
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