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SUMMARIES OF OPINIONS
Published Monday, February 8, 2010 Please note: Opinion summaries are prepared by the Public Information Office for the general public and news media. Summaries are not prepared for every opinion released by the Court, but only for those cases considered of great public interest or in which a Justice dissented or the Court reviewed a case from the Court of Appeals. Opinion summaries are not to be considered as official opinions of the Court. The full text of these and all other recent Court opinions are available on the Supreme Court website at www.gasupreme.us . REID V. THE STATE (S09A1684) In a 6-to-1 vote, the Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the convictions and life prison sentence given to Travion Reid for murder and related crimes. "Construed most strongly in support of the verdicts, the evidence shows that Reid killed Cheyenne Morgan by intentionally shooting him with a rifle during an attempted armed robbery," says the majority opinion, written by Presiding Justice George Carley. The case involves a dispute among pimps in Fulton County over the control of prostitutes. The victim, Morgan, was a 20-year-old pimp who went by the street name, "Sin," according to briefs filed in the case. On the night of Dec. 30, 2003, he and a group of other pimps

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