Vote the way you honestly believe, the judge told the jury.
The jury found Lawanda Michelle Ward and a co-defendant guilty of murder in the shooting death of 12-year-old Nicole Hawes just before Thanksgiving in 1995.
The jury found Lawanda Michelle Ward and a co-defendant guilty of murder in the shooting death of 12-year-old Nicole Hawes. But the Georgia Supreme Court found that Judge Franklin H. Pierce wrongly lowered the state's burden of proof when he, over the objection of both defense and prosecution, told the jury "If you honestly believe that the defendants are guilty, then find them guilty."
May 06, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Vote the way you honestly believe, the judge told the jury.
The jury found Lawanda Michelle Ward and a co-defendant guilty of murder in the shooting death of 12-year-old Nicole Hawes just before Thanksgiving in 1995.
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