Roberts v. Georgia
Annotate this CaseAppellant Deanna Roberts pled guilty in federal court to a crime relating to the theft of a medical product, liquid silicone, that Roberts injected into the buttocks of Lateasha Hall, resulting in Hall’s death. When she was later indicted for state crimes arising from Hall’s death, including malice murder, Roberts filed a plea of statutory double jeopardy in superior court, contending that under OCGA 16-1-8 (c), her conviction in federal court barred the state prosecution for all crimes except malice murder. The trial court rejected that claim, and Roberts filed a direct appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court. Because one of the statutory requirements for the section 16-1-8 (c) bar to apply was not satisfied here, the Supreme Court affirmed the trial court’s denial of Roberts’s plea in bar.
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