Head v. Stripling

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided October 14, 2003

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 2003-10-14

Relies on Head v. Hill

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Decided 2003-10-14

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Hill v. Humphrey (2011), State v. Jimenez (2006)

7 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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Sears, Presiding Justice,

¶1concurring in part and dissenting in part.

¶2I concur in the majority’s ruling remanding this matter to the trial court for retrial on the issues of mental retardation and sentencing. For the reasons outlined in my dissent to Head v. Hill, 277 Ga. 255 (587 SE2d 613) (2003), however, I dissent to the majority’s ruling requiring Stripling to establish his mental retardation in the trial court beyond a reasonable doubt.

¶3I am authorized to state that Chief Justice Fletcher and Justice Benham join in this dissent.