The Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday unanimously overturned the murder conviction of a man who had sought to represent himself at trial because he claimed his lawyer had blamed him for the lawyer’s heart attack.
The opinion, penned by Chief Justice Hugh Thompson, reversed the 2010 conviction of Ulysses Wiggins, who was sentenced to life without parole for murder and aggravated assault.
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