Willis v. Georgia

A jury convicted Demetrius Willis of three counts of malice murder and numerous related offenses. After finding beyond a reasonable doubt multiple statutory aggravating circumstances, the jury recommended death sentences for the murder convictions, and the trial court entered judgment accordingly. Willis’s motion for a new trial was denied, and he appealed his convictions and sentences. The Georgia Supreme Court determined the verdicts for aggravated assault of the three murder victims merged into the corresponding malice murder verdicts. Therefore, Willis’s convictions and sentences for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon of three victims had to be vacated. The Court affirmed all of Willis’s remaining convictions and sentences, including his death sentences for the murders. View "Willis v. Georgia" on Justia Law