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Davis v. Turpin

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided November 13, 2000No. S00A0993PublishedCited by 33 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Hunstein, Justice.

Troy Anthony Davis was tried, convicted and sentenced to death in August 1991 for the killing of a law enforcement officer and other crimes. He appealed in 1992; this Court affirmed his conviction and sentence in Davis v. State, 263 Ga. 5 (426 SE2d 844) (1993). Davis filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Superior Court of Butts County in March 1994. The habeas court conducted an evidentiary hearing in December 1996 and denied Davis’s amended petition in an order filed on September 9, 1997. This Court granted Davis’s application for a certificate of probable…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  4. Wood v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  5. United States v. Chaim LevyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1994

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3Cited by33 opinions

  1. Chatman v. MancillSupreme Court of Georgia · 2006
  2. In Re DavisCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2009
  3. Brockman v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2013
  4. Garland v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2008
  5. Barrett v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2012

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