State v. Marlowe

I must respectfully dissent because today a majority of the Justices of this Court issues an opinion which contravenes the expressed intent of the Georgia General Assembly, and which is a radical departure from current Georgia law and traditional notions of statutory and constitutional double jeopardy. We granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals in these cases to consider the not uncommon situation in which a defendant is charged with and found guilty of multiple counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime and the same weapon is used against the same victim in the…