Ricks v. State

NAHMIAS, Justice.

Otis Ricks has been indicted along with three other men for murder, armed robbery, criminal street gang activity, and related crimes in connection with the shooting death of Vanessa Thrasher at a lounge in Atlanta on August 16, 2012. The State has given notice of its intent to seek the death penalty against Ricks and at least one of his co-defendants, Demario Carman.1 The defendants’ cases were *172severed for trial, although some of Ricks’s and Carman’s pretrial proceedings have been conducted jointly and the October 31, 2013 hearing discussed below was conducted jointly with…