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  • State v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2010-08-06
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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

  • Heard v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herman M. Kilgore Maddox Kilgore PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Jesse D. Evans, John R. Edwards, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and David A. Zisook, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0866

    Evidence showed that the 15-year-old defendant voluntarily and knowingly waived his Miranda rights, before giving his custodial stat

  • Cowart v. Widener

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles C. Stebbins III Warlick, Tritt, Stebbins & Murray LLP, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John A. Davison, Amy R. Snell Fulcher Hagler LLP, Charles C. Mayers, Augusta, J. Edward Allen Jr. Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, and Henry E. Scrudder Jr. Scrudder, Bass, Quillian, Horlock, Taylor & Lazarus LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09G1177

    The plaintiffs did not establish that the defendant's failure to render the decedent aid proximately caused his death from natural causes, since they produced no evidence, expert or otherwise, on th

  • 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