FAMILY PHOTO - Sam and Theresa Parker's wedding picture. The couple was married on Sept. 11, 1993.Former LaFayette Police Sgt. Samuel Logan Parker will remain in prison for the murder of his wife.
The Georgia Supreme Court upheld Parker's conviction in an opinion released this morning. A jury convicted Parker in September 2009 for the murder of Theresa Parker, his wife of 16 years.
Samuel Parker's attorney, David Dunn, argued during the appeal that Judge Jon "Bo" Wood messed up in 2009 by letting the jury hear certain pieces of evidence.
One of Samuel Parker's former wives testified that he used to beat her and told her he could kill her and get away with it. Theresa Parker's mother and former sister-in-law also testified that he threatened to kill them and bury their remains somewhere nobody would look.
At the time of Samuel Parker's conviction, nobody had found his wife's body.
"The incidents were sufficiently similar," Chief Justice Thompson wrote of the various abuse allegations. "The trial court's factual findings were not clearly erroneous."
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