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Sidney Dorsey (born February 23, 1940) is an American former law enforcement officer who served as sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia from 1996 to 2000. Dorsey was the first African American to serve as sheriff of DeKalb County. When Dorsey lost a 2000 runoff election to challenger Derwin Brown, he arranged Brown's murder.
He was arrested by UGA police and was charged with 10 counts, including felony murder, malice murder, false imprisonment, aggravated assault with intent to rape, and kidnapping. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 7 ] Ibarra was found guilty on all charges on November 20, 2024, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Murder in Georgia law constitutes the killing, under circumstances defined by law, of people within or under the jurisdiction of the U.S. state of Georgia. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in the year 2021, the state had a murder rate somewhat above the median for the entire country. [1]
Carl Millard Patton Jr. (born 1949) was an American serial killer who committed five murders across Georgia from 1973 to 1977 with multiple accomplices. Via DNA testing in 2003, he was arrested for the murders, subsequently pleading guilty and given a life sentence.
On February 16, 2021, exactly a week before the first anniversary of Arbery's murder, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced he would introduce legislation that would significantly amend the state's citizen's arrest law. Georgia's citizen's arrest law had been textually very broad in scope, dating back to the Civil War era. The legal defense ...
A Georgia man was robbed and fatally shot in the head after he was lured into meeting his killer on a dating app. Mark Antonio White, 23, was found guilty of felony murder, aggravated assault ...
McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court case, in which the death sentence of Warren McCleskey for armed robbery and murder was upheld. The Court said the "racially disproportionate impact" in the Georgia death penalty indicated by a comprehensive scientific study was not enough to mitigate a death penalty determination without showing a "racially discriminatory ...
Intentional murder: a) of two or more persons; b) with extreme cruelty; c) for mercenary purposes or by contract; d) aimed at transplanting or otherwise using an organ, part of an organ, or tissue of the victim's body; e) repeatedly (except for murders provided for in Articles 110–114 of this Code); f) related to the official activities or ...