Court upholds murder conviction

The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday, by a 5-2 vote, upheld the murder conviction against Timothy Boothe for killing Geneva Strickland.

Before the murder, Strickland had hired Boothe to paint her home and repair her car. On the night of Oct. 31, 2007, firefighters reponded to a fire at her home and found Strickland, her wrists and legs bound and her mouth covered with a bandage, dead of carbon monoxide poisoning and suffocation. Tests identified Boothe’s nuclear DNA inside a blue latex glove found wrapped in the bandage covering Strickland’s mouth, the ruling said.