Legal Opinion
Parks v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided May 17, 1985No. 41619PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Gregory, Justice.
This is a death penalty case. Appellant, Joseph Russell Parks, was convicted in DeKalb County of murder, rape and aggravated sodomy.1
Facts
The victim, 10-year-old Agnes Ann Watts, disappeared early in the evening of September 17, 1981. At 10:45 p.m., her body was discovered behind the refrigerator in an empty apartment from which Joseph Parks and his girl friend, Elise Talent, had recently been evicted by the victim’s mother, who managed the apartment complex.
*404By 1:00 a.m., investigators learned that Parks and his girl friend had been the most recent occupants of the apartment,…
2Cases cited45 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- San Antonio Independent School District v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Sandstrom v. MontanaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by81 opinions
- Pope v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1986
- Cargill v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1986
- Hicks v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1987
- Romine v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1986
- Ledford v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1994
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