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Corporate America Feels The Heat

The political winds have shifted in the global warming debate. The main questions now are how, when and what will it cost?

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Murrell v. State

Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Crowe Lane & Crowe PC, Brunswick, for appellant.
for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, and William S. Hart District Attorney's Office, Woodbine, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A0978

The evidence was sufficient to show that the defendant was manufacturing methamphetamine, even though no methamphetamine was found in defendant's house and some of the necessary materials needed for

Wright v. State

Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce F. Morriss and Daniel Shim Morriss, Lober & Dobson LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, Pamela D. Brophy and Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant District Attorneys, Douglasville, for appellee.
Case Number: A04A2290

A detective's corroboration of information from a known informant, along with his observance of defendant's lane-change violations, provided probable cause for him to order another officer to initia

Maddox v. State

Publication Date: 2005-02-25
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Smith, George T.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas P. Lenzer and Robert W. Lenzer Lenzer & Lenzer, Norcross, for appellant.
for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Peter H. Boehm, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
Case Number: A04A1630

A jury charge on deliberate ignorance was appropriate where the defendant knew her son was going to burn down their home for the insurance money, created an alibi and attested to the items falsely l

Rakestrau v. State

Publication Date: 2005-02-04
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hugh O. Morris Jr., Albany, for appellant.
for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, Bradford R. Pierce, Assistant District Attorney, Albany, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S04A1625

Trial counsel were not deficient for failing to interview and present a witness who gave a statement to police, implicating the defendant as the person who stabbed and killed the v

Knox v. State

Publication Date: 2004-12-17
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maurice Brown, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, and Alvera A. Wheeler, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: A04A2312

The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting similar transaction evidence of three previous incidents involving the same fundamental features as the stalking episode for which the defen

Hipps v. Hipps

Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Carley, George H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew R. Hall Clarke, Moore & Hall LLP, Warner Robins, for appellant.
for defendant: Thomas M. Rego, Tallapoosa, for appellee.
Case Number: S04F0842

The trial court had authority under applicable federal law to order the husband to name his wife as the beneficiary of any survivor's benefits available as a result of his pre-marital military se

Pike v. State

Publication Date: 2004-02-27
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Adams, A. Harris
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John A. Nuckolls, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, H. Maddox Kilgore and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
Case Number: A03A2121

Defendant's consent to search his locked bedroom was not tainted by the officers entry into the home with the permission of defendant's brother who own

Johnston v. Ross

Publication Date: 2003-12-12
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Ruffin, John H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John E. Kardos Kardos, Warnes & McElwee, Athens, for appellant.
for defendant: Andrew J. Hill III and Josh B. Wages Blasingame, Burch, Garrard, Bryant & Ashley, Athens, for appellees.
Case Number: A03A1130

Whether the defendant breached a duty created by the applicable housing code that required handrails on steps leading from the front porch of the home he rented to plaintiff was a jury

Shields v. State

Publication Date: 2003-12-12
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Adams, A. Harris
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vicki E. Carter, Athens, for appellant.
for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, and Anna E. Watkins, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
Case Number: A03A1312

Defendant was not entitled to mistrial after trial court allowed the victim to testify, despite the state's failure to provide defendant with her current address and phone number where defendant nev