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  • Dawson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas M. West and Robert H. Citronberg, Atlanta, for Dawson. Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Susan W. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for the state. Amicus appellant: Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore, Robert L. Tsai American Civil Liberties Union, Natsu T. Saito Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, and Amy G. Donnella, St. Davids, Penn.Michael Mears, MultiCounty Public Defender, Stephen B. Bright Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, and Althea L. Buafo Buafo & Assocs., Macon, for Moore. Timothy G. Vaughn, District Attorney, Eastman, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for the state. Amicus appellant: Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A1041, S01A1210

    The future use of electrocution as a means of executing death sentences in Georgia would violate the Georgia Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punis

  • Wright v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard M. Darden, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton, Jr., District Attorney, Kimberly D. Rowden, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1176

    Defendant shot the victim in the back and side after the victim accused him of stealing a video game and fired a shot over defendant's

  • Rhode v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John F. Nebl, Decatur, Francis N. Ford Adams & Ford LLP, Eatonton, and Holly L. Geerdes Multi-County Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frederic D. Bright, District Attorney, Gregory L. Bushway, Assistant District Attorney, Gray, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Karen A. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Center, Michael Mears MultiCounty Public Defender, Atlanta, and Linda A. Malone William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.
    Case Number: S01P0708

    The trial court did not err in admitting defendant's voluntary juvenile confessions to unrelated crimes during the sentencing phase of his death penalty trial after determining that the confessions

  • Heard v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-09-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen T. Maples, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Angel Wheeler, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0636

    O.C.G.A. § 5-6-38 requires a trial court order granting, denying, or otherwise finally disposing of a party's motion for a new trial in order to extend the time for filing a notice of a

  • Cox v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-09-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick D. Head, District Attorney, Richard H. Kimberly Jr., Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0754

    Defendant shot and killed his common law wife in the presence of their 3-year-old dau

  • In re Bates

    Publication Date: 2001-09-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and E. Duane Cooper, Assistant General Counsel State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Allen E. Bates Allen E. Bates & Assocs., Atlanta. Anthony B. Askew, Chairperson Review Panel, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01Y0614

    Attorney voluntarily surrendered his license to practice law based on his federal convictions for mail fraud and money laund

  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory A. Hicks and James K. Luttrell, Woodstock, for Thomas. Carlton C. Carter, Canton, for Taborn. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Maria B. Golick, Dana J. Norman, Jack E. Mallard, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A0146; S01A0321

    Evidence obtained by foreign police is generally admissible regardless of whether foreign authorities comply with the Fourth Amen

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn M. Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, and Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00G1809

    Police report narratives are not admissible under the business re exception to the hearsay rule because they do not have the inherent reliability of other traditional business re

  • Accolades Apartments LP v. Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2001-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John G. Parker, Joseph C. Sharp Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Atlanta, for Accolades Apartments LP. William R. Turner, County Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Daniel M. Formby, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Warren R. Calvert, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Marcia M. Ernst, William Van Hearnburg Jr. Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Shellie R. Cherner, Nicholas G. Dumich Hewitt, Katz & Dumich, Thomas R. Walker Troutman Sanders LLP, Terrill A. Parker Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Beryl H. Weiner, Richard H. Deane Jr., James R. Schulz, Assistant United States Attorney, John Drake Cole Henderson Drake Inc., Nan H. Newman Georgia Power Co., Glenn R. Austin Federal National Mortgage Assoc., L. L. Edge Consolidated Equities Corp., General Electric Corp., General Electric Capital Corp. CT Corp. Sys., Lumbermans Mut. Ins. Co., Atlanta, W. R. Robertson III, Marietta, Thomas Allen Union Central Life Ins. Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, Siamak Kusha Owen, Ayers & Assocs. Inc., Tampa, Fla., Carol Russell State of Maryland Deposit Ins. Fund, Hunt Valley, Md., and GE Appliances Electric Corp., Fairfield, Conn., for Fulton County and others. Amicus Appellant: William H. Dodson II Dodson, Feldman & Dorough LLP, Aasia Mustakeem Powell, Goldstein, Frazier & Murphy LLP, Atlanta, and Carol V. Clark McCalla, Raymer, Padrick, Cobb & Nichols, Roswell Accolades Apartments LLP v. Fulton County. Michael J. King, Robert E. Spears Jr. and Joseph H. Akers Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for Aaron Rents Inc. Joseph G. Davis, Laura L. McGinty Welch, Spell, Reemsnyder, Pless & Davis, William B. Brown Heyman & Sizemore LLC, Marcia M. Ernst Smith, Gambrell & Russell, John G. Parker Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Warren R. Calvert, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta for Fourteenth Street Ventures LP Aaron Rents Inc. v. Fourteenth Street Ventures LP.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S00G0952; S00G1477

    The rights and responsibilities of the individual joint venturers determine whether a partnership is f even if the documents controlling the venture expressly state that no partnership was f

  • Givens v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael G. Schiavone and Steven L. Sparger Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Jon Hope, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General,, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0509

    The witness's testimony that defendant promised to give him insurance money for killing the victim satisfied the nexus requirement for admission of evidence of a life insurance p