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  • In re Shelfer

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and Elizabeth M. Williamson State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. James E. Spence Jr., Atlanta. James B. Ellington, Chairperson Review Panel, Augusta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S04Y0978

    An attorney who used estate funds for his personal benefit after drafting a client's will naming himself as executor or her estate was suspended for two years with conditions on reinstat

  • Al-Amin v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Martin Martin Bros. PC, Donald F. Samuel and William C. Lea Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Anna E. Green, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Ruth M. Pawlak, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0151

    The surviving victim identified the defendant as the man who opened fire on two deputy sheriffs who were attempting to execute a bench warrant for his a

  • Unified Gov't of Athens-Clarke County v. Hospital Auth. of Clarke County

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew H. Marshall Begnaud & Marshall LLP, and William C. Berryman Jr., Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, and J. Edward Allen Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, for appellees. Amicus appellee: Jack S. Schroder Jr. Alston & Bird, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S04A0449

    A 2-step process for filling vacancies on the county hospital board of trustees did not have to be reduced to wr

  • Wilson v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jan V. Hinson, Alice A. Blanco, Duluth, and Robert L. Jones, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David A. Webster, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04F0234

    Georgia courts take an intermediate approach to the question of whether parties in a civil action have an absolute right to closing arg

  • Burchette v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rafe Banks III Banks, Stubbs, Neville & Cunat LLP, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip C. Smith, District Attorney, Rand J. Csehy and Penny A. Penn, Assistant District Attorneys, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03G1195

    Language that instructs the jury that a criminal case "must be decided by some jury" should be removed from the state's pattern Allen c

  • Taylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary P. Punch, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Anne C. Allen, Matthew A. Rankin, and John M. Daley, Assistant District Attorneys, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03G1056

    The Court of Appeals erroneously declined to address the merits of the defendant's evidentiary

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-03-19
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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, Alvera A. Wheeler, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0290

    The state proved venue in Fulton C through the accomplice's and detective's testimony that the victim was shot in an area located in that c

  • State v. Varner

    Publication Date: 2003-12-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker and Bret E. Pinion, Assistant District Attorneys, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: D. Todd Wooten, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0936

    The state meets its obligation under the speedy trial demand statute so long as it retries a case that ends in mistrial during the remainder of the term in which the mistrial occurred or, if there a

  • Ferguson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-12-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, and Lynda S. Caldwell, LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A1527

    The trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained pursuant to the unconstitutional provision in O.C.G.A. § 40-5-55, which requires chemical testing, even in the

  • Bodne v. Bodne

    Publication Date: 2003-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Allison Jr., Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Hope C. Allen and John C. Mayoue Warner, Mayoue, Bates, Nolen & Collar, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03G0275

    Ormandy v. Odum, 217 Ga. App. 780 1995, and other Georgia cases are overruled to the extent they presume that a custodial parent has a prima facie right to retain custody, unless the objecting paren