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  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S07A1779

    Arson conviction served as the underlying felony for the defendant's felony murder conviction and merged into that conviction for sentencing pur

  • Davenport v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S08A0175

    The trial court's slip-of-the-tongue during one pattern charge did not amount to reversible error, given the charge as a whole and the fact that the entire written charge went out with the

  • Blige v. Blige

    Publication Date: 2008-02-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S07F1817

    The husband actively hid the fact that he had $150K in cash in his possession when the parties signed their antenuptial agre

  • Bradley v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S07A1706

    The defendant admittedly shot the victim in the back, hip and hand outside a of convenience

  • Wood v. Wood

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
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    Case Number: S07F1474

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in determining that a home in Tattnall county was t e's separate property, since the husband quitclaimed any interest he had in the property to

  • Allen v. Yost

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
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    Case Number: S07A1355

    The petitioner's appeal contesting the results of November 8, 2005 election to city council was moot, since the term of office for the seat she sough has now ex

  • Velazquez v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
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    Case Number: S07A1418

    The evidence at the competency hearing authorized the special jury to find that the defendant failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he was incompetent to stand trial for felony m

  • Chumley v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S07A1280

    The trial court plainly erred in expressing its opinion about voluntariness of the defendant's admission that he killed his m

  • Gregory v. Clive

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: T. Bart Gary, Neil L. Wilcove, Theodore Freeman and Donald J. Grate Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: George P. Shingler, Matthew D. Williams, Jonathan R. Granade Casey Gilson PC, Atlanta, Allen W. Bodiford and Ted N. Echols, Stockbridge, for appellees. Amicus appellant: R. Jonathan Hart, Emily E. Garrard, Savannah, David A. Basil, Carrollton, and James F. Grubiak, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S06G2138

    Public duty doctrine does not extend to city building inspectors, since this doctrine only applies to cases involving police prote

  • Lindsey v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-10-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Yurachek Mark Allen Yurachek & Assocs. and Bruce S. Harvey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A1220

    The trial court harmfully erred in allowing the prosecutor to question the defendant about his extensive misdemeanor arrest r