Braithwaite v. State

The Fulton County assistant district attorney began his closing argument in appellant’s trial for the murders of Chauncey Fleming, Eddie McMillian and Nekeba Turner, with the following language:

Two 18-year-old kids, sleeping in their house, never done anything wrong, not bothering anybody, engaged to be married, recent graduates from high school, both working, promising careers, maybe college.

What must it have been like to be in that bedroom, minding your own business when five men come in there, order you get down face first? Do you scream? Well, they couldn’t do that because they’d stuffed…