SPENCER

v.

GEORGIA; AND SMITH, AKA MACHETTI V. GEORGIA

Citator

Cited By

• Spencer v. Zant, 715 F.2d 1562 (11th Cir. 1983)
  …hat he spit the key into an officer’s hand when he was apprehended. Spencer appealed his conviction and sentencé to the Georgia Supreme Court, which affirmed with one justice dissenting. Spencer v. State, 236 Ga. 697, 224 S.E. 2d 910, cert, denied, 429 U.S. 932, 97 S.Ct. 339, 50 L.Ed.2d 302 (1976). Spencer filed a petition in Tattnall County Superior Court for a writ of habeas corpus. After an evidentiary hearing, the court denied his petition and the Georgia Supreme Court again affirmed. Spencer v. Hopp…
• MacHetti v. Linahan, 679 F.2d 236 (11th Cir. 1982)
  …her February, 1975, jury conviction for two murders. On appeal, the Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed the convictions and sentences and denied her petition for rehearing. Smith v. State, 236 Ga. 12, 222 S.E. 2d 308, cert. denied, Smith v. Georgia, 429 U.S. 932, 97 S.Ct. 339, 50 L.Ed.2d 302 (1976), rehearing denied, 429 U.S. 1055, 97 S.Ct. 771, 50 L.Ed.2d 772 (1977). The Bibb County Superior Court denied Machetti’s petition for declaratory relief and/or a new presentence hearing and for a stay of executi…