State wants death sentence reinstated in midstate deputy's slaying
By Amy Leigh Womack - awomack@macon.com
Prosecutors are asking the Georgia Supreme Court to reinstate the conviction and death sentence for a man convicted in the 1998 shooting death of a Laurens County deputy.
Prosecutors with the State Attorney General's office are scheduled to argue today that 60-year-old Andrew Howard Brannan should be sentenced to die for killing Laurens County deputy Kyle Dinkheller, 22.
Craig Fraser, the district attorney for the Dublin Judicial Circuit District, said he stands behind Brannan's conviction. Fraser, then an assistant district attorney, prosecuted the case.
"It was a fair trial," he said, adding the trial was moved to Brunswick to escape pretrial publicity.
Fraser said the fatal shooting rocked Laurens County.
"It was a real shock to the community," he said. "I think they want to see that the verdict is carried out."
Brannan is being held at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center near Jackson, which houses death row inmates, according to prison records.
It took a jury just four hours to convict Brannan of murder and another four to sentence him to death in January 2000.
Brannan, armed with a high-powered military rifle, confronted Dinkheller Jan. 12, 1998, after the deputy had clocked Brannan driving 98 mph on Interstate 16 and given chase. The traffic stop culminated in a gunfight.
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Any idea which branch Brannan served?
ReplyDeleteI am not sure and the post is so old the link back to the story isn't working. There are many reports on this case and I think you can find your answer if you have the time to look for it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=969_1263249923
ReplyDeleteWatch this guy in action...this wasn't a case of PTSD. This was murder plain and simple.
Thank you for the link. Amazing dash-cam video.
ReplyDeleteThis is so unbelievable, it's nauseating. Is there ANY news about this embarrassing to all of the vets like myself, POS getting dealt with?? For god sake I deployed to Afghanistan five times, Iraq three times, and I'm a soldier. Tabbed Army Ranger, tasked out with 5th group from Campbell, so I've seen some ugly too, and have been diagnosed with PTSD as well. But I would NEVER attack an american citizen like he did. I fought for the citizens, not to murder them, and Brannan NEEDS to die. Is there ANY info on this that isn't a decade old?
ReplyDeleteJohn, please don't feel that way. When you think about how many veterans have PTSD, it is easy to see how rare something like this is. As a matter of fact the majority of PTSD veterans are a greater danger to themselves than they are to others.
ReplyDeleteUp until the late 90's this is what too many people thought about Vietnam veterans because that was all they heard about on the news. The truth was far from it.
You are among the majority of PTSD veterans like my husband. Caring, good men who would still risk their lives for someone else.
Brannan was in the minority back then just like now.