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  • Chatman v. Mancill

    Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Pereira Thompson & Sweeny PC, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1862

    The rationale behind the opinion in Ryan v. Thomas, 261 Ga. 661 1991-that one member of the public defender's office could not reasonably be expected to assert or argue the ineffective assistance of

  • Ladzinske v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. M. Raffaur, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott W. Peters, Nathan M. Wheat, David H. Flint Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Atlanta, Eugene C. Reed Jr., William J. Linkous III and Viviane H. Ernstes DeKalb County Law Dept., Decatur, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A1866

    Plaintiff could not directly appeal the dismissal of his suit arising after the county department of public works declared a charter school to be exempt from local ordinances and granted all necessa

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Goad, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Cartersville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0154

    The circumstantial evidence was sufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis other than the defendant's

  • Henderson v. Gandy

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew R. Kirschner Kirschner & Venker PC, Atlanta, and Michael W. McElroy, Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Ashley P. Nichols Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Simuel F. Doster Jr., Paul E. Weathington, Robert T. Strang III, and Wayne D. Toth Allen &Weathington PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05G0674

    To maintain a legally sufficient claim under the Georgia Fair Business Practices Act against a health care provider, a plaintiff must allege that an entrepreneurial or business aspect of the provisi

  • Rayburn v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Moulton Moulton & Tarrer LLC, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: R. Phillip Shinall III Alexander, Royston, Hardman & Shinall, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A2094

    The decedent's will clearly provided that his wife and son would share the expenses of maintaining the couple's home until it was sold, as long as both the wife and son resided there; however, the w

  • Brewer v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Corbin, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Dalton, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1368

    The defendant's malice murder conviction was supported by the evidence, including forensic evidence that either of the two gunshot wounds to the victim's head, by itself, would have instantly incapa

  • Belmar v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker and Sheila A. Connors, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1564

    The defendant admitted to his girlfriend that he shot and killed a man and left his body in a school parkin

  • Hampton v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin T. Hampton, Helena, proceeded pro se. Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Jeffrey W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S05A1168

    The murder defendant's numerous claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel were meri

  • Farrish v. Farrish

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gus L. Wood III Wood, Odom & Edge PA, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Delia T. Crouch, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05F1180

    The appellant appropriated marital assets after the parties separation, which he did not account for, and he accumulated substantial debt supporting his paramour and her family to the detriment of

  • Folsom v. City of Jasper

    Publication Date: 2005-05-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven K. Leibel and Guy H. Weiss Casey Gilson Leibel PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Will H. Pickett Jr. Pickett, Pickett & Pickett PC, Jasper, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A0021

    The city of Jasper's Alcoholic Beverages Ordinance contains a blanket prohibition against truthful, non-misleading speech about a lawful product in violation of the First Amen