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  • Pulley v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sharon L. Hopkins, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Richard A. Vandever, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0786

    A police chief's comment that the defendant had only one chance to cut a deal did not induce the defendant's confession under the totality of the circumstances, even if the statement constituted an

  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-06-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark J. Nathan, Assistant Public Defender, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry Chisolm, District Attorney, Ann M. Elmore, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine R. Thrower, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0853

    Slight differences in the size, shading or clarity of photographs used in an identification line-up do not render a line-up impermissibly sugge

  • Leibel v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Goldman, Christine L. Mast and Joseph H. Wieseman Hawkins, Parnell, Thackston & Young LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard L. Brittain, Wendell R. Bird Bird, Loechl, Brittain & McCants, Atlanta, Jenny E. Jensen and Richard E. Harris Jones, Jensen & Harris, Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11G0557

    Expert testimony as to causation is not appropriate in a legal malpractice

  • Northway v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles S. Herman Bignault & Carter, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard R. Rafter Ratchford & Rafter LLP, Claude M. Kicklighter Jr., Springfield, and Andrea A. Smart, Rincon, for appellees.
    Case Number: S12A0492

    The city council failed to state a claim for relief in its petition to remove an elected mayor from o

  • West Hamryka v. City of Dawsonville

    Publication Date: 2012-06-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: F. Edwin Hallman Jr., Zachary M. Wilson III and Richard A. Wingate Hallman & Wingate LLC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Dana B. Miles Miles, Patterson, Hansfor, Tallant LLC, Cumming, Bambi N. Carswell, John A. Dickerson McClure, Ramsay, Dickerson & Escoe LLP, Toccoa, and Larry L. Hicks II Moore & Hicks PC, Hartwell, for appellees. Amicus Appellee: Alphonso A. Howell IV, Timothy M Tanner Coleman Talley LLP, Valdosta, and Wendy S. Butler Coleman Talley LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S12A0215; S12A0217; S12A0218

    The Court dismissed the appeals for failure to comply with the discretionary appeal procedures of O.C.G.A. § 5

  • Ellis v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2012-06-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George P. Donaldson III and Richard W. Fields Perry & Walters LLP, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit S. Dorough Jr., Albany, and Jesse G. Bowles III, Cuthbert, for appellees.
    Case Number: S12A0315

    O.C.G.A. § 15-9-120 2—defining probate court as ' "probate court of a county having a population of more than 96,000 persons according to the United States decennial s of 1990 or any future suc

  • Cook v. Board of Registrars of Randolph County

    Publication Date: 2012-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maurice L. King Jr., Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Franklin T. Coleman III and Robert K. Raulerson Perry & Walters LLP, Albany, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: Nancy G. Abudu and M. Laughlin McDonald ACLU Foundation Inc., Atlanta.
    Case Number: S12A0140

    A determination of voter qualifications, not clearly linked to a particular election, does not bring the appeal under the Supreme Court's jurisdiction over cases of election contest within the meani

  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-05-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0193

    The trial court did not violate the continuing witness rule by allowing a copy of a witness's immunity agreement to go out with the jury because it was consistent with the theory of the de

  • State v. Caffee

    Publication Date: 2012-04-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, Elberton, and Richard K. Bridgeman, Assistant District Attorney, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jimmonique R. S. Rodgers, James C. Bonner Jr. and Sheueli C. Wang Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Appellate Division, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11A1529

    Double jeopardy did not bar a second trial for murder, kidnapping and related charges, since the trial court based its grant of a new trial on the improper admission of evidence, as opposed to the i

  • Roberts v. Deal

    Publication Date: 2012-03-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elliott B. Watkins, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Charles L. Bachman Jr., Judson H. Turner, Robert L. Fortson Turner, Bachman & Garrett LLC, Marietta, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, and Stefan E. Ritter, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S11A1515

    The Governor was without authority to remove the elected members of a county board of education under O.C.G.A. § 45-10-4 for their alleged violations of O.C.G.A. § 45