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SCOGA upholds Gwinnett man's murder conviction

By The Associated Press
Posted 10:52AM on Monday 7th January 2013 ( 11 years ago )
ATLANTA (AP) Georgia's highest court has upheld a murder conviction and life sentence for a man convicted of stabbing his estranged wife to death in a Walmart parking lot in front of their young daughters.

Phillip Chad Dunn was convicted in June 2011 in the killing of Shelley Dunn in Suwanee on Feb. 14, 2010.

A week before the killing, Dunn pleaded guilty to assault and battery on his wife after choking her. When he got out of jail on bond, he discovered that his wife and daughters had moved out.

Phillip Dunn's lawyers argued the trial court improperly admitted evidence from that incident and improperly excluded evidence of his wife's blood alcohol level at the time of her death. In their unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court justices rejected those arguments.

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