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: StandDown Texas Project

Georgia Supreme Court Hears Case on Victim Impact Statements

By Steve Hall

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"Court weighs victim-impact testimony in death case," is the title of Bill Rankin's Atlanta Journal-Constitution report. A lawyer on Monday told the Georgia Supreme Court that a Douglas County death-penalty case could set a dangerous precedent in allowing inflammatory victim-impact testimony. The attorney, John Harbin, said that if the court does not overturn the capital sentence imposed in 2007 against Nicholas Jason Bryant, it will allow "thinly veiled" pleas from victims for death sentences in future cases. Bryant was convicted of killing Billy Joe Kilgore, 68, and Marie Richards, 36, during a May 21, 2004, robbery. Prosecutors said Bryant got into an argument with Kilgore while driving to make a drug deal, shot Kilgore during a struggle and then shot Richards in the back of the head to eliminate her from being a witness...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 08, 2011 (boomark / email).

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