Legal Opinion
Bridges v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 25, 2010No. S09A1801PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Melton, Justice.
This is the second appearance of this case before this Court. In Bridges v. State, 279 Ga. 351 (613 SE2d 621) (2005), we found that the evidence overwhelmingly supported Roy Bridges’ dual convictions for murder, but we remanded the case to the trial court solely to consider Bridges’ timely-raised allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel. In our prior opinion, we set forth the facts of this case as follows:
On December 27, 1997, the severely beaten body of [Bridges’] wife, JoAnn Bridges, was found in the Whigham, Georgia, home of her mother, a butcher knife lodged in her…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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