State v. Abraham

EXUM, Chief Justice.

Defendants James Tyrone Abraham and Patrick Lavell Cureton were indicted for the first-degree murder of Tariano Gaddy and for felonious assaults against Darryl Foster and Joice Hardin. They were tried capitally in a joint trial. A jury convicted each defendant of first-degree murder on the theory of felony murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Upon the jury’s recommendation of life imprisonment for both defendants on the first-degree murder convictions, the trial court imposed a life sentence on each defendant and a consecutive…