Bostic v. Georgia
Annotate this CaseAnthony Bostic appealed his convictions and sentences for: the malice murder of Brian Patterson; the aggravated assaults of Quantavious Robinson, Dwayne Branker, Twahnica Mills, Latavia Hollinger, Anastecia Davis-Romero, Sandricka Meyers, Brittany Head, Isaiah Chandler, and Matthew Dowdy; and the possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. Patterson, in company with Branker and Robinson, walked from a store to a pizza parlor to purchase a pizza. While in the parlor, Patterson saw Bostic and Eric Mathews outside in a car. Patterson made a derogatory comment regarding Bostic and Mathews; Patterson and Branker went outside the parlor and Robinson stood in the doorway. Mathews, who was driving the car, pulled into the parking lot of the parlor; from a window of the car, Bostic fired several shots toward Patterson and his companions, missing Branker, striking Robinson once in the foot, and fatally striking Patterson once in the chest. Bullets entered the pizza parlor, shattering the front glass. Inside the pizza parlor, customer Dowdy was walking toward the exit, and employees Head, Mills, Meyers, Hollinger, Chandler, and Davis-Romero were working, all of whom retreated further into the pizza parlor when the shots were fired. Finding no reversible error, the Supreme Court affirmed.
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