Richard Merritt convicted of murdering Shirley Merritt

former attorney sentenced to life in prison for killing 77-year-old mother

May 31, 2023. State vs. Richard Merritt Decatur, Ga.- DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston announces a conviction by jury trial in the murder case ...

Georgia Lawyer Convicted Of Fraud Murders Mother Before Going ...

Shirley Merritt, pictured here, was murdered by her son, Richard, in February ...

Family relieved after former Cobb lawyer gets life for killing mother

Police said she'd been beaten with a dumbbell and stabbed multiple times. Richard Merritt's car was in the driveway; Shirley Merritt's Lexus was ...

I-Team: Convicted killer Richard Merritt back in court - YouTube

... Convicted killer Richard Merritt was back in court this week. He's arguing for a new trial, after a DeKalb County jury found him guilty last ...

Richard Merritt trial: Disbarred attorney takes stand, claims he saw ...

Richard Merritt takes stand in murder trial ... For the first time, disbarred attorney Richard Merritt who is accused of murdering his mother took ...

Richard Merritt murder trial guilty all counts - 11Alive.com

... murder investigation for his mother, 77-year-old Shirley Merritt. In January 2019, Merritt had originally pleaded guilty to theft, forgery ...

Lawyer Accused of Mom's Murder Trial - GA v. Richard Merritt - Day ...

... report to prison for financial crimes in February 2019. Prosecutors allege Merritt brutally stabbed and beat 77-year-old Shirley Merritt to ...

Former lawyer Richard Merritt, accused of killing mother, found guilty ...

A verdict has been reached in the Richard Merritt trial, the former attorney accused of killing his mother.

GA v. Richard Merritt: Disgraced Attorney Accused of Killing Mother

Dr. Bruce Wainer, the associate medical examiner in the DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office, testified that Shirley Merritt's cause of death ...

Disgraced lawyer Richard Merritt found guilty on all counts – 95.5 WSB

The jury has found Richard Merritt guilty on all counts. The charges were in total six counts: one count of malice murder, two counts of felony murder, two ...

Atlanta lawyer accused of stabbing his own mother guilty on all counts

A disgraced attorney Richard Merritt will spend the rest of his life in prison without parole – after a jury found him guilty of killing his ...

Former attorney gets life in prison for stabbing his mother to death at ...

Richard Merritt, 49, was found guilty on charges of malice murder ... His mother, Shirley Merritt, was 77 years old. “At the time of the ...

Richard Merritt convicted of murdering Shirley Merritt - Law & Crime

Jurors convicted a disbarred Georgia attorney of murder for fatally beating his mother with his 35-pound dumbbell and stabbing her with her ...

Jury Quickly Convicts Fugitive Lawyer Richard Merritt of Murdering ...

A Georgia jury quickly convicted fugitive lawyer Richard Merritt for murdering his mother, 77-year-old Shirley Merritt, on the day he was ...

UPDATE: Family relieved after former Cobb lawyer gets life for ...

Merritt was convicted Wednesday of killing 77-year-old Shirley Merritt in her DeKalb County home in 2019. ... Richard Merritt · Shirley Merritt ...

Jury Quickly Convicts Fugitive Lawyer of Murdering His Mother

A Georgia jury quickly convicted fugitive lawyer Richard Merritt for murdering his mother, 77-year-old Shirley Merritt, on the day he was ...

Disgraced attorney Richard Merritt says he did not kill his mother

The former attorney is accused of killing his mother, Shirley Merritt, on the day he was supposed to report to prison for unrelated financial ...

GA v Richard Merritt - 24liveblog

Merritt is accused of killing his mother, Shirley Merritt, on the day he was supposed to go to prison for unrelated financial crimes. Shirley had been making ...

Atlanta lawyer accused of stabbing his own mother to death claims ...

Prosecutors said Richard Merritt brutally beat and stabbed his mother, 77-year-old Shirley Merritt, to death in 2019, on the same day he was supposed to report ...

Ex-Wife Remembers Richard Merritt Being Violent Before Mother's ...

... murder of his mother, Shirley Merritt. Dr. Jenine Caruso Minicozzi testified that her ex-husband had been physically violent with her once a ...