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May 30, 2006 |

Mark Belnick Tells His Story

Former GC of Tyco talks to SuperConference attendees about his indictment and subsequent trial

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Navarro v. State

Publication Date: 2006-05-26
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Ruffin, John H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raymon D. Burns, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Matthew D. Crosby, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
Case Number: A06A0537

The defendant was not in custody when he answered the officers' knock at an apartment door, invited the officers inside, then admitted that he was at the scene of an aggravated assault and that he s

Daniels v. State

Publication Date: 2006-03-31
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Leggett, Conyers, for appellant.
for defendant: Richard R. Read, District Attorney, and Kirk M. Thomas, Assistant District Attorney, Conyers, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A1820

The arresting officer had probable cause to stop the defendant's vehicle based on an anonymous tip that described the vehicle in question, its occupants and how the tipster knew that there would be

Holloway v. State

Publication Date: 2006-03-31
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Ruffin, John H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Adams Jr., Thomaston, for appellant.
for defendant: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Cindy L. Spindler, Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, James E. Hardin, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, and Robert H. English, Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A2112

The defendant did not show that he could have produced an alibi if the state had narrowed the dates in his indictment for aggravated child molestation, child molestation and i

Warner v. State

Publication Date: 2006-02-17
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Ruffin, John H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: August F. Siemon III, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Raymond C. Mayer, Assistant District Attorney, and Andrea A. Newton District Attorney's Office, Newnan, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A1816

The state failed to lay a proper chain of custody foundation for a blood test, which allegedly showed that the defendant had herpes and might have infected the rape v

Redwine v. State

Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hines, P. Harris
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Shelnutt and David Benjamin Ross Berry, Shelnutt, Day & Hoffman PC, Columbus, for appellant.
for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, David R. Helmick, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S05A1060

The defendant broke into the victim's home, held the victim down and boun with duct tape before the defendant's accomplice stabbed the victim, cut her throat and kicked and bludgeone

August 31, 2005 |

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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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