The Supreme Court of Georgia Tuesday will hear an appeal from a man who pleaded guilty in a brutal murder with Forsyth County connections.
Michael B. Lejeune pleaded guilty to shooting and killing 39-year-old Ronnie Davis on Dec. 27, 1997, in Atlanta over a $250 drug debt, and is serving a life sentence without parole.
His girlfriend, Rekah "Kelly" Anand, who testified against him in exchange for murder and aggravated assault charges against her being dismissed, said that after Lejeune killed Davis, she helped him drag the body upstairs where Lejeune dismembered it. They then stuffed the body parts in the trunk of Lejeune's car, drove to a cemetery in Forsyth County and set the car on fire. But they kept the head because the bullet was still inside it.
Lejeune, she testified, later placed Davis' head in a bucket, poured cement into it, and dumped it into Lake Lanier. The head has never been recovered.
In appealing his sentence, Lejeune argues that his guilty plea was not done "knowingly" and "voluntarily."
