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  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory A. Hicks and James K. Luttrell, Woodstock, for Thomas. Carlton C. Carter, Canton, for Taborn. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Maria B. Golick, Dana J. Norman, Jack E. Mallard, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S01A0146; S01A0321

    Evidence obtained by foreign police is generally admissible regardless of whether foreign authorities comply with the Fourth Amen

  • Hardwick v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Margot S. Roberts, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Erman J. Tanjuatco, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1732

    O.C.G.A. § 15-12-133 provided defendant's exclusive and absolute right to question prospective jurors about their imparti

  • Givens v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael G. Schiavone and Steven L. Sparger Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Jon Hope, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General,, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0509

    The witness's testimony that defendant promised to give him insurance money for killing the victim satisfied the nexus requirement for admission of evidence of a life insurance p

  • Gilbert v. Montlick & Assocs. PC

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fred A. Gilbert, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth L. Milwood Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough and Craig E. Bertschi Kilpatrick & Cody, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Michael J. Gorby and Martha D. Turner Gorby, Reeves, Peters & Burns PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A2284; A00A2286

    Assignment of an attorney's to a third party did not affect the validity of the

  • Steele v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert W. Lenzer and Thomas P. Lenzer Lenzer & Lenzer, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Eleanor A. Kornahrens and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0738

    Defendant was not entitled to a charge under O.C.G.A. § 24-9-85 b because the victims did not wilfully and knowingly give false test

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold B. Baker, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, James E. Hardy, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Robert R. Auman and Robert D. Jewell, Assistant District Attorneys, Thomasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0554

    De counsel was not deficient for pursuing an all-or-nothing de to a child molestation charge, rather than requesting a charge on sexual battery as the lesser included of

  • Smith & Wesson v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Pope Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, David J. Bailey Jones, Davis, Reavis & Pogue, Richard A. Schneider, William R. Bassett Jr. King & Spaulding, Richard H. Sinkfield, Tony G. Powers Rogers &Hardin, Atlanta, Jeffrey S. Nelson, Gary R. Long Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Kansas City, Mo., Melissa A. Maye, Yorkville, Ill., James C. Sabalos, Newport Beach, Calif., Thomas E. Fennell Jones, Davis, Reavis & Pogue, Dallas, Texas, Lawrence W. Greenwald Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman & Hoffberger, Baltimore, Md., James P. Dorr and Anne-Marie Dega Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, Ill., for Smith & Wesson. Susan P. Langford, City Attorney, Nicholas C. Moraitakis Mills, Moraitakis & Kushel, Hezekiah Sistruck Jr. Sistruck & Assocs., Ernest L. Greer Minkin & Snyder, Cheryl D. Cofield, Willie J. Lovett Jr. Office of the County Attorney, R. Clay Porter, Alisa W. Terry Dennis, Corry & Porter LLP, Frank R. Seigel Cofer, Beauchamp, Stradley & Hicks, Matthew W. Clarke, David M. Brown Smith, Gambrell & Russell, and Timothy A. Bumann Budd, Lanier, Gross, Rosenbaum & Greenberg, Atlanta, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Cochran, Cherry, Givens & Smith PC, New York, N.Y., Samuel A. Cherry Jr., Angela Mason Cochran, Cherry, Givens & Smith PC, Dothan, Ala., Daniel G. Abel, Wendell H. Gauthier Gauthier, Downing, LaBarre, Beiser & Dean, Metairie, La., Kenneth M. Carter Carter & Cates, New Orleans, La., Kevin C. Decie Davis, Saperstein & Solomon PC, Teaneck, N.J., Jack D. Maistros, Keith T. Vernon Climaco, Lefkowitz, Peca, Wilcox & Garofoli, Cleveland, Ohio, Robert C. Tarics, Michael Branisa, Michael Zomcik Tarics & Carrington, Houston, Texas, and William M. Griffin Friday, Eldredge & Clark, Little Rock, Ark., for the city of Atlanta. Frank R. Seigel Cofer, Beauchamp, Stradley & Hicks, Atlanta, John S. Kanzler, John Renzulli Renzulli & Rutherford LLC, New York, N.Y., for Glock Inc. Amicus Appellants: Joshua Horwitz Education Fund to End Handgun Violence, Washington, D.C., Michael C. Hewitt Bruinsma & Hewitt, Costa Mesa, Calif. Amicus Appellee: Alfred L. Evans Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S00A1530, S00A1533

    The state court's refusal to dismiss the city's suit against a number of firearms manufacturers, distributors and trade associations was not subject to challenge by an action for man

  • Dickerson v. Dickerson

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth L. Shigley, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard W. Hendrix Finch, McCranie, Brown & Thrash, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1992

    A prior judicial determination that petitioner was not decedent's common-law wife, precluded her from raising their alleged common-law marriage in her petition to set aside the appointment of decede

  • Tate v. Coastal Utils. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard D. Phillips and Joseph C. Kitchings Phillips & Kitchings, Ludowici, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David R. Smith Branan, Searcy & Smith, Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2238, A00A2239

    The plaintiffs could not use the renewal statute to revive their personal injury claims because the federal court dismissed their original action for failure to exercise due diligence in attempting

  • First Born Church of the Living God Inc. v. Bank of Am.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kirby C. G. Mason Hunter, McLean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah, John M. Hatfield The Hatfield Law Firm, Waycross, and Walter D. Adams, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Lamar Gibson Gibson & Spivey PC, Waycross, and Monica L. Cothran Davenport, James & Cothran, Panama City, Fla., for appellee. Other party representation: Kerey Carpenter, Tallahassee, Fla.
    Case Number: A00A1795

    The trial court erred in retaining jurisdiction to consider the propriety of the church board's successive attempts to remove its senior bishop because the Court of Appeals' decision in the parties