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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