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  • Young v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Phillips Phillips & Sellers LLP, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julia A. F. Slater, District Attorney, Columbus, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Katherine R. Thrower, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and David R. Helmick Waldrep, Mullin, & Callahan, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1403

    The Supreme Court vacated the defendant's separate convi and sentence for burglary because it served as the predicate offense for his felony murder convi

  • Leger v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herman M. Kilgore Maddox Kilgore PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, John R. Edwards, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine L. Iannuzzi, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0833

    The Supreme Court affirmed the defendant's convictions for malice murder and aggravated battery in connection with the death of his estranged wife, as the evidence supported

  • Gamble v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1223

    The trial court's Allen charge was not impermissibly coercive, regardless of the fact that the trial court gave the charge after 2.5 hours of deliberation and the jury returned a verdict less than

  • 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