A surprising tidbit in a Georgia Court of Appeals decision on a double jeopardy appeal is the price of a trailer load of pecans: $28,240.
That’s what Royce Palmer and Brandon Ellerbee got for the nuts they stole from a South Georgia farm in October 2013, according to an opinion Judge Stephen Dillard wrote, with support from Judges Billy Ray and Tripp Self. But commodity pricing is only an aside for the May 18 opinion, which addresses when double jeopardy applies and when it doesn’t.
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