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  • 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

  • Hall v. Lewis

    Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Richard Tangum, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Paul E. Greenwalt, Heidi Oertle and Ann. H. MacDonald Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, Ill., for appellee.
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    Case Number: S09A1862

    Trial counsel's purported deficient performance in presenting an actual innocence theory, rather than voluntary manslaughter, did not prejudice the defe

  • Sharp v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg Georgia Capital Defender, Buddy M. Mears, Atlanta, and Therese M. Day, Phoenix, Ariz., for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Lenny I. Krick, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Anna G. Cross, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A2025

    Photographs of the victim's body tied to a cemetery tree were admissible to demonstrate her inj

  • Merritt v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. David Wolfe and Robert A. Susor L. David Wolfe PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Senior Assistant District Attorney, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1476

    There is no conflict between the term of years sentencing option in O.C.G.A. § §16-6-1 b and 17-10-6.1 and the Court's ruling in State v. Velazquez, 283 Ga. 206 2008 that life without parole cannot

  • Humphreys v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchel D. Durham, Jimmy D. Berry, Marietta, Carl P. Greenberg Georgia Capital Defender, Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr., Atlanta, and Holly L. Geerdes Geerdes & Kim LLC, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Teresa M. Schiefer, Assistant Attorney General, and Richard A. Malone Prosecuting Attorneys' Council, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09P1428

    The statutory aggravating circumstance set forth under O.C.G.A. § 17-10-30 b 10 regarding murders committed for the purpose of avoiding, interfering with, or preventing lawful arrest, does not exten

  • Manley v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, appellants. Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S10A0136, S10A0137

    In some cases, defendants may present an objective and significant disparity in parol eligibility on cross-examination of a state's wi

  • Spurlock v. Department of Human Resources

    Publication Date: 2010-02-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott E. Spurlock, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Martin L. Fierman, Eatonton, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Mark J. Cicero, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and John R. Sikes, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1475

    The trial court applied a high income deviation from the presumptive child support award without making all of the required findings under O.C.G.A. § 19-6-1

  • Adams v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Walker, Swainsboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Askew, District Attorney, Samuel Altman District Attorney's Office, Swainsboro, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1998

    Absent a showing of prejudice, there is no reversible error, if the trial court gives the petit jury oath after the opening of evidence, but prior to the jury's delibera