Legal Opinion
Sears v. Humphrey
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 18, 2013No. S13A0670PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Thompson, Chief Justice.
In 1993, Demarcus Sears was convicted of kidnapping with bodily injury and armed robbery in connection with the death of Gloria Wilbur, who was kidnapped and robbed of her automobile in Georgia, raped in Tennessee, and murdered in Kentucky. The jury recommended a death sentence for the kidnapping with bodily injury after finding multiple statutory aggravating circumstances, including that the kidnapping with bodily injury was committed while Sears was engaged in the commission of the capital felony of murder.1 The trial court sentenced Sears to death for the kidnapping…
2Cases cited49 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Cullen v. PinholsterSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
- Wiggins v. Smith, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Travis Clinton Hittson v. GDCP WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2014
- Keith Tharpe v. WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2016
- Hulett v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2014
- Demarcus Sears v. Warden GDCPCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2023
- FORD v. TATE (And Vice Versa)Supreme Court of Georgia · 2019
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