Legal Opinion
Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 21, 1991No. S90P1325PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Weltner, Justice.
This is a death penalty case. The crime occurred in 1975. The appellant, James Willie Brown, was found incompetent to stand trial until 1981, when he was tried, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Brenda Watson. We affirmed, holding, inter alia, that Brown had failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he was insane at the time of the crime. Brown v. State, 250 Ga. 66, 71-72 (295 SE2d 727) (1982). However, in 1988, a federal district court granted Brown’s petition for writ of habeas corpus on two grounds relating to Brown’s competence to stand…
2Cases cited37 opinions
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- Trammel v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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3Cited by14 opinions
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