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Martin v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided November 2, 2015No. S15P0675PublishedCited by 46 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HINES, Presiding Justice.

A jury convicted DeKelvin Martin of raping his girlfriend, Tymika Wright, murdering her 12-year-old child, Savion Wright, and her elderly grandparents, Travis Ivery and Ila Ivery, by stabbing each of them repeatedly, committing aggravated sodomy against Ms. Wright in the presence of Christin Martin, the two-year-old child that Martin and Ms. Wright had together, and related crimes. The jury found multiple statutory aggravating circumstances related to the murders of Savion Wright and Travis Ivery and recommended a death sentence for those murders, which the trial…

2Cases cited91 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  4. United States v. AgursSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  5. Ring v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 2002

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3Cited by46 opinions

  1. Willis v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2018
  2. Bozzie v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2017
  3. Walker v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2017
  4. Hampton v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2017
  5. ANTHONY v. THE STATE (Three Cases)Supreme Court of Georgia · 2018

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