An Ogeechee Judicial Circuit judge has ruled Craig Heidt does not merit a new trial for his December 2010 conviction on the murders of his father and brother. Judge Gates Peed decreed, in an order filed Feb. 21, that Heidt — convicted for the August 2008 murders of his father Philip Heidt and brother Carey Heidt — did not merit a new trial. Defense attorney Dow Bonds argued that a shotgun brought to authorities during the trial should have been treated as newly discovered evidence.