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Grimes v. State

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  • 293 Ga. 559
  • 748 S.E.2d 441
  • 2013 Fulton County D. Rep. 2834
  • 2013 WL 4779572
  • 2013 Ga. LEXIS 653

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  • holding that Edge did not apply to defendant’s felony murder conviction based on the underlying felony of attempted armed robbery, which was not an integral part of the killing
  • reiterating this principle and explaining that “we generally do not apply the Edge modified merger rule ‘to any felony murder conviction in which the underlying felony was not the aggravated assault of the murder victim’”

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