The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday reversed two murder convictions and tossed out evidence in a third murder case.
In an opinion by Justice Robert Benham, the court reversed two of three murder convictions of Duane Clough connected to his 2009 attack on his estranged wife and a man with whom she was sleeping, killing the man. The high court said because the Carroll County Superior Court judge failed to offer the jury the option to convict the defendant of a less serious crime—voluntary manslaughter—convictions of malice murder and felony murder, based on an aggravated assault charge, must be reversed.
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