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  • Hightower v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmonique R. S. Rodgers Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for Hightower. Mark T. Phillips, Albany, for Johnson. Gregory W. Edwards, District Attorney, Albany, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Reggie A. Lampkin, Assistant Attorney General, and Kenneth B. Hodges III Baudino Law Group PLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S10A0383, S10A0589

    The trial court did not err in allowing test that a witness had expressed his opinion regarding the guilt of certain defendants for the limited purpose of impeaching the witness's test

  • June 30, 2010 |

    Five General Counsel Who Thrive in the Non-Profit World

    InsideCounsel chats with non-profit GCs.

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  • Weis v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-04-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen B. Bright Southern Ctr. for Human Rights, Robert H. Citronberg, Atlanta, and Thomas M. West, Manchester, Mass., for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Robert W. Smith Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Patricia B. A. Burton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1951

    Inadequate or delayed defense counsel funding from the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council did not result in presumed prejudice to the defendant, since the funding deficiency showed neither an

  • April 19, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

    Experts Archive: Complete List of CorpCounsel.com Contributed Stories

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  • Gober v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell D. Durham, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman and Kathryn E. Cozzo, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1924

    The trial court properly admitted a key witness's prior inconsistent statement as substantive evi

  • Aceves v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sharon L. Hopkins, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Dawn H. Taylor, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2254

    Defense counsel was not deficient for not raising a futile objection to the state's argument, which stressed that the victim testified that she would never forget the defendant's face as long as sh

  • Vega v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-02-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Krista C. Dunning, William S. Lewis and Jennifer R. Burns, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Anne M. Elmore, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0023

    The state's failure to produce a completely inaudible videotape did not violate

  • Overton v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-12-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
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    Case Number: A08A1192; A08A1193; A08A1194; A08A1717

    The evidence supported the first two defendants' convictions for multiple crimes, arising out of the kidnapping and death of a store's assistant manager and the second two defendants' RI

  • Boone v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-10-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A08A1300

    The investigator's statement during def 's custodial interview that "he would talk to the District Attorney's office" at a later time about having a warrant against the de

  • July 25, 2008 |

    Montrose Endorsement

    This article is an analysis of the Montrose decision and the known loss doctrine that is related to that decision.

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