Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Benham, Robert
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Bonner Jr. and Jimmonique R. S. Rodgers Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Lenny I. Krick, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S12A0788
Russell v. State, overruled, to the extent that it can be read as holding that a trial court must instruct a jury that it is precluded from finding a defendant guilty of felony murder, if it finds t