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  • Collum v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas E. White and Green B. Moore III Public Defender's Office, Gray, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frederic D. Bright, District Attorney, Milledgeville, Gregory L. Bushway, Assistant District Attorney, Gray, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A2000

    The trial court erred in sentencing the defendant to multiple life sentences, since there was only one v

  • Boldin v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher T. Adams, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Jefferson, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1675

    The officers had a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to search the defendant's home after one officer smelled burning marijuana and saw the defendant flee from his garage into his home, dro

  • July 31, 2006 | Legal Times

    2005-06 Supreme Court: The Advocates' View

    The Supreme Court's 2005-06 term began with a bang and ended with a blockbuster. After a decade-plus of stability, the Court had two new members to unsettle expectations. Chief Justic

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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