DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - On Wednesday, a judge sentenced former attorney Richard Merritt to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus five years, for stabbing and beating Shirley Merritt to ...

UPDATE: The verdict is in. After approximately 90 minutes of deliberation, the jury has found Richard Merritt guilty on all counts. The charges were in total six counts: one count of malice murder, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A disgraced attorney Richard Merritt will spend the rest of his life in prison without parole – after a jury found him guilty of ...

A former Cobb County attorney who fled the state after killing his mother in 2019 was convicted Wednesday and sentenced to life in prison. It took the jury only about 90 minutes to return to the ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A jury convicted a disgraced metro Atlanta attorney Wednesday of malice murder, the most serious murder charge in Georgia, and five other charges in the 2019 stabbing death of his ...

Richard (Dick) Lincoln Merritt, loving husband to Betty Merritt (Markham) of Marlborough, died on February 2, 2022 at the age of 86. Richard was the son of Harold and Doris Merritt (Lincoln). He grew ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Georgia -- The U.S. Marshals are offering a $5,000 reward in the nationwide manhunt for a convicted attorney. Richard Merritt was last seen at a gas station just outside Atlanta, ...

Pastor Richard Allen Edward Merritt, 52, of Breinigsville was met at Heavens gates by his daughter, Megan Mugsy Merritt, on Monday, December 2, 2013, while surrounded by his loving family at Lehigh ...