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  • Wolfe v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anna Blitz, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul J. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1620

    Evidence of defendant's gang activities was admissible and relevant to show his motive for firebombing the victims

  • Georgia Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co. v. Gaster

    Publication Date: 2001-03-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mason White and Hames D. Kreyenbuhl Brennan, Harris & Rominger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: R. Stephen Sims Barrow & Sims PC and John G. Hunter, Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2252

    The business pursuits exclusion in defendant's homeowner's policy did not preclude coverage for the injury her client sustained when he fell on a step-down into her living room because her maintenan

  • In the Interest of B.K.M.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, and Kimberly A. Homer, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: David A. Fox Thompson, Fox, Joliff, Chandler & Homans, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2508, A00A2509

    A detailed description of the juveniles and their car, as well as the general timeframe and vicinity in which the crimes allegedly occurred, was sufficient evidence to justify a Terry

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kirk E. Gilliard Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wesley S. Wood, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0037

    The state could ask the defendant if he had "Thug Life" tattooed on his abdomen, since that evidence was relevant to the defendant's possible motive for committing a drive-by sho

  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard K. Murray, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and Stephen E. Spencer, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2306

    The state negated any inference that a not-guilty verdict would make it worse for the v by telling the jury that their decision would not change what happened to the v

  • Southern Prestige Homes Inc. v. Moscoso

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tom Pye Chestnut & Livingston PC, Doraville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Leon Van Gelderen and John A. Ziolo Cornelison & Van Gelderen, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1851

    The defendants did not unilaterally rescind a new home purchase and sale contract when they sent a letter to plaintiff stating that they would draft a contract termination agreement which would prov

  • Horton v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin G. Hilliard, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1225

    The trial court should have considered defendant for first offender treatment since he committed armed robbery before the legislature barred application of the First Offender Act to defendants convi

  • January 3, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Pittsburgh Solo Joins Burns White to Chair Group

    Pittsburgh solo attorney Stephen S. Stallings, a former federal prosecutor, has joined Burns White as chair of the firm's white-collar criminal defense practice. Burns White founding m

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  • September 30, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection List of Ineligible Attorneys

    The Supreme Court has entered an Order declaring in le to practice law in New Jersey those attorneys not in compliance with the 2002 annual assessment. That Order and the list of in

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  • August 14, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Burns White Adds Four Attorneys From Cohen Seglias

    Pittsburgh-based Burns White has hired Manning J. "Jim" O'Connor II, former managing partner of Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman's Pittsburgh off

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