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  • Griffin v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas L. Kirbo III The Kirbo Law Firm, and Jon V. Forehand Allen & Forehand, Moutrie, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, Robert R. Auman, Assistant District Attorney, Thomasville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0385

    O.C.G.A. § 16-5-40 does not preclude a conviction for kidnapping with bodily injury if the bodily injury occurs after the victim's

  • Lowery v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. David Wolfe, Kathryn A. Westberry and Bruce S. Harvey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Bowden, District Attorney, Tifton, Bradford L. Rigby, Assistant District Attorney, Albany, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0262

    The trial court harmlessly erred in failing to consult with the defendant and his counsel prior to responding to the jury's substantive communic

  • Tennyson v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randolph Frails, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0680

    The defendant ran over the unarmed victim three times with his vehicle, killin

  • Langlands v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Staples Jr., Cornelia, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarksville, and Richard K. Bridgeman, Assistant District Attorney, Toccoa, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0785

    State v. Langlands, 276 Ga. 721 2003 is overruled to the extent that it holds that trial counsel's deficient performance in failing to file a demurrer based on a mistaken allegation that firearms of

  • Sampson v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Casto Bennett & Casto PC, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Crawford L. Seals, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0375

    The defendant fatally shot his ex-girlfriend after seeing her with anothe

  • Stokes v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, Atlantic Beach, Fla., for Stokes. Robert L. Crowe, Brunswick, for Hobdy. Joseph E. East, Kingsland, for Tinsley. Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Charles K. Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S07A0163; S07A0164; S07A0165

    The defendants rode around in the first defendant's SUV and participated in a drive-by shooting, killing one victim, hitting the second victim under the eye and striking the third victim twice in th

  • Cooper v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-04-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0040

    The defendant put a gun to the victim's head, ordered him to put money from a laundromat's change machine into a bag, then shot him numerous times, killin

  • Stokes v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth W. Sheppard, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John D. Durden Jr., District Attorney, Mark A. Hendrix, Melissa L. Poole, Assistant District Attorneys, Hinesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1975

    The defendant was one of three men, who lay in wait for the intended victim to make a night deposit from a dollar store, and, when the victim drove up in a truck, which resembled the intended victim

  • Blue Moon Cycle Inc. v. Jenkins

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William R. Youngblood and Laura V. Benesh William R. Youngblood PC, Suwanee, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Duane A. Jenkins, Duluth, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: S06G1136

    Immunity from civil liability pursuant to the deposit account fraud statute, O.C.G.A. § 16-9-20 is not limited to cases when the action is brought by the person, who signed the

  • Ewing v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George O. Lawson Jr. Lawson & Thornton PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Amber A. Robinson and Cleora S. Anderson City of Atlanta Law Dept., Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A1988

    The trial court erred in construing the pleadings most favorably to the city and the city's chief of police in dismissing a police lieutenant's petition for a writ of mandamus, seeking to require th