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  • Adams v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Persse, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, and Daphne H. Jarriel, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09G1927

    The presumption of vindictiveness in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U. S. 711 1969, whenever more a severe sentence is imposed, after a new trial, is not triggered, unless the new aggregate sentence

  • Danbert v. North Ga. Land Ventures LLC

    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Tittle Jr., Hiawassee, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lawrence A. Stockton Jr. Stockton & Stockton LLC, Clayton, and Ronald J. Stay Jr. Stites & Harbison PLLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S10A0563

    The parties presented conflicting evidence as to whether the public could access an easement road, which the appellants own up to the cente

  • State v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2010-07-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman and Jesse D. Evans, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tony L. Axam Axamlaw and Calvin A. Edwards Jr., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0070

    State v. Crane, 247 Ga. 779 1981, overruled, as the felony murder statute requires only that the defendant's felonious conduct proximately cause the death of another p

  • Inquiry Concerning Judge Kenneth E. Fowler

    Publication Date: 2010-07-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Allen, Columbus, James B. Durham Durham, McHugh & Duncan PC, Brunswick, Robert D. Ingram Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele LLP, Marietta, Christopher S. Anulewicz, Michael J. Bowers Balch & Bigham LLP and Constance C. Russell, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jon F. Helton Hilburn & Helton PC, Dublin, for appellee. Other party representation: H. Jerome Strickland Jones, Cook & Miller LLP, Macon.
    Case Number: S10Z1144

    A probate court judge, who allowed criminal defendants to buy-out their community service portions of their sentences, placed the buy-out funds in an undisclosed bank account and did not turnover or

  • Hollie v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Yurachek Yurachek & Assocs. LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Jimmie E. Baggett Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09G1578

    O.C.G.A. § 42-1-12 contains no language expressly prohibiting the trial court from imposing sex offender registration as a probation condition upon the defendant's convictions for aggravated child m

  • Wier v. Wier

    Publication Date: 2010-07-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Szczecko Simons & Szczecko PC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Allen W. Bodiford, Stockbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10F0553

    The trial court did not err in awarding the wife $200K in lump sum equitable property division, since the evidence authorized the jury to find that the value of the marital property exceeded that a

  • Baker v. Wellstar Health Sys. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-06-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason R. Manton The Manton Law Firm LLC, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Henry D. Green Jr. and Mary P. Adams Green & Sapp LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellants: Traci G. Courville Oates & Courville, Columbus, and J. Marcus E. Howard Pope & Howard PC, Atlanta. Amicus Appellees: Thomas S. Carlock Eric J. Frisch Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, Brian W. Looby, Donald J. Palmisano Jr. Medical Ass'n of Ga., Simuel F. Doster Jr. and Hunter S. Allen Jr. Allen, McCain & OMahoney PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S10A0994

    O.C.G.A. § 24-9-40 a provides that a plaintiff waives his right to privacy with regard to medical records only insofar as they are relevant to a medical condition, which the plaintiff places at iss

  • Manley v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-04-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for state.
    Case Number: S10A0136, S10A0137

    The trial court erred in failing to suppress defendant's statement to police after being arrested, because he unambiguously requested a lawyer and all questioning should have stopped immedi

  • Georgia State Licensing Bd. for Residential and Gen. Contractors v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Deputy Attorney General, Janet B. Wray, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Reagan W. Dean and Scarlett Elliott, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Neal J. Callahan Waldrep, Mullin & Callahan LLC and Robert R. Lomax Marchetti & Lomax LLP, Columbus, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09A1831

    Preserving the status quo is the only appropriate purpose for the grant of an interlocutory injunction and the injunction in this case operated oppressively on the defendant county, the Board and th

  • Hicks v. Heard

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven K. Leibel, Dahlonega, for appellant.
    for defendant: Render C. Freeman, Michael J. Blakely Jr. Andersen Tate & Carr PC, Duluth, and Jeffrey P. Yashinsky Schur, McDuffie & Morgan, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09G1508

    In iff's vicarious liability action, the burden-shifting paradigm in Allen Kane's Major Dodge v. Barnes, 243 Ga. 776 1979, supported the grant of summary judgment to the defendant, because the