Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas M. West, Atlanta, and Amy G. Donnella, St. Davids, Pa., for appellant.
for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Nicholas A. Lotito Davis, Zipperman, Kirschenbaum & Lotito, Brenda J. Bernstein and Celeste S. Jenks The Bernstein Firm PC, Atlanta.
Case Number: S04A2006
The trial court t required to sua sponte order a competency hearing before trying a 14-year-old as an adult on malice murder charges, since nothing the defendant did at trial suggested that he