A Georgia man whose 2015 prosecution for murder ended in a mistrial can’t be tried again, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday, upholding a lower court that found the district attorney intentionally caused the first trial to be scrapped.

The ruling by Georgia’s highest court spares Monquez Jackson of Albany from facing a second jury in the 2012 robbery and slaying of Anthony Westbrook. Prosecutors said Jackson shot the victim in the back of the head and left his nude body in a dump after Jackson, his wife and her brother forced Westbrook to withdraw money from an ATM.

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