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  • Burke Cnty. v. Askin

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry A. Fleming and Frank A. Nelson Fleming & Nelson LLP, Evans, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thomas R. Burnside III and James W. Ellison Burnside Wall LLP, Augusta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S12A0649; S12X0650

    The Court vacated and remanded the trial court's order granting the property owner's mandamus action to compel the County to repair and maintain certain roads inasmuch as it granted relief under the

  • Doyle v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard M. Darden Darden Law Firm, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry Chisolm, District Attorney, Thomas M. Cerbone, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Dana E. Weinberger, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1036

    The defendant's 14-year-old brother identified him as the gunman, who shot through a door at a return-to-college party in Savannah four times, wounding three victims, one of them fa

  • 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