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  • Hendrix v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-10-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S08A1332

    The trial court did not err in admitting certain pre-autopsy photographs of the murder victims to show nature and location of their inj

  • Petty v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-03-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
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    Case Number: S07A1438

    The defendant's request for attorney did not require that questioning cease, since he was not in custody at that

  • Chatman v. Mancill

    Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Pereira Thompson & Sweeny PC, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1862

    The rationale behind the opinion in Ryan v. Thomas, 261 Ga. 661 1991-that one member of the public defender's office could not reasonably be expected to assert or argue the ineffective assistance of

  • Moreland v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1301

    The defendant shot the victim in the chest after he and his accomplice approached the victim's car to ste

  • Clark v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Gerald L. Henderson, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0440

    The defendant was not entitled to charges on lesser included offenses where the evidence showed completion of the greater c

  • Cooper v. Unified Gov't of Athens-Clarke County

    Publication Date: 2003-12-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony O. Powell, Robert J. Wilson Webb, Tanner & Powell LLP, and Christopher T. Adams, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ellen W. Hight and William C. Berryman Jr., Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A1253

    Plaintiff could not raise a constitutional issue regarding his alleged vested rights to a for developing his property as a solid-waste transfer station without first requesting a variance or

  • Parker v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas and Caprice R. Jenerson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Ruth A. Pawlak, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0986

    The defendant shot the victim twice in the head at close range and started a fire in the bedroom of her home where her body was lo

  • Allgood Farm LLC v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2002-09-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby L. Cook Cooke & Connelly, Summerville, Phillip A. Bradley & Sheryl L. McCalla McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Albert C. Palmour Jr. and Johnny R. Dennis Albert Palmour, Summerville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S02A0410

    Defendant did not have superior title in a case involving mineral rights to certain land because plaintiffs' mineral interests predated defendant's ownership of the land by nearly 100 years and defe

  • Allgood Farm LLC v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby L. Cook Cooke & Connelly, Summerville, Phillip A. Bradley & Sheryl L. McCalla McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Albert C. Palmour Jr. and Johnny R. Dennis Albert Palmour, Summerville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S02A0410

    Defendant did not have superior title in a case involving mineral rights to certain land because plaintiffs' mineral interests predated defendant's ownership of the land by nearly 100 years and defe

  • Lance v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Richardson Brannon The Brannon Law Office, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Winder, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Romin Alavi, Assistant Attorney General, and Patricia B. A. Burton Dep't of Law, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01P1813

    The defendant killed the first victim with at least two shotgun blasts and beat the second victim to death with repeated blows to her