Willie Palmer is entitled to a new trial because Georgia Bureau...

Willie Palmer is entitled to a new trial because Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents withheld crucial information from his attorneys, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled.
Justices unanimously ruled that Palmer's convictions and death sentence must be reversed. Palmer was convicted of killing Brenda Palmer, his estranged wife, and her daughter, Christine Jenkins, in 1995.
"It is irrelevant that a police agency may have possessed the favorable evidence without the knowledge of the prosecutor; the law places the responsibility and ultimate burden on the prosecutor for the failure to provide the favorable evidence to the defendant," justices wrote in the opinion.
In April 4 (see), Superior Court Judge John Lee Parrott also overturned Willie Palmer's murder conviction, saying the trial was corrupted by the concealment of a payment to a key prosecution witness.