Legal Opinion
Phillips v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided July 12, 2010No. S10A0948PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARLEY, Presiding Justice.
A jury acquitted Leon Phillips of malice murder, but found him guilty of the felony murder of Veronica Rucker and numerous other offenses. After treating certain felony murder verdicts as surplusage and merging other counts, the trial court entered judgments of conviction and imposed sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for felony murder during the commission of aggravated assault, a consecutive life sentence for kidnapping, and various terms of years for false imprisonment, cruelty to children in the first degree, possession of a weapon…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- LaFontaine v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1998
- Hunter v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1991
- Fulton v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2004
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3Cited by25 opinions
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