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  • Cook v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Abda L. Quillian Quillian, Loncon & Edwards LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rene J. Martin III, District Attorney, Tony A. May, Statesboro, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1464

    Out-of-state witness's statements were admissible under the necessity exception to the hearsay rule because the state was unable to secure her presence at

  • Smith & Wesson v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Pope Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, David J. Bailey Jones, Davis, Reavis & Pogue, Richard A. Schneider, William R. Bassett Jr. King & Spaulding, Richard H. Sinkfield, Tony G. Powers Rogers &Hardin, Atlanta, Jeffrey S. Nelson, Gary R. Long Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Kansas City, Mo., Melissa A. Maye, Yorkville, Ill., James C. Sabalos, Newport Beach, Calif., Thomas E. Fennell Jones, Davis, Reavis & Pogue, Dallas, Texas, Lawrence W. Greenwald Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman & Hoffberger, Baltimore, Md., James P. Dorr and Anne-Marie Dega Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, Ill., for Smith & Wesson. Susan P. Langford, City Attorney, Nicholas C. Moraitakis Mills, Moraitakis & Kushel, Hezekiah Sistruck Jr. Sistruck & Assocs., Ernest L. Greer Minkin & Snyder, Cheryl D. Cofield, Willie J. Lovett Jr. Office of the County Attorney, R. Clay Porter, Alisa W. Terry Dennis, Corry & Porter LLP, Frank R. Seigel Cofer, Beauchamp, Stradley & Hicks, Matthew W. Clarke, David M. Brown Smith, Gambrell & Russell, and Timothy A. Bumann Budd, Lanier, Gross, Rosenbaum & Greenberg, Atlanta, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Cochran, Cherry, Givens & Smith PC, New York, N.Y., Samuel A. Cherry Jr., Angela Mason Cochran, Cherry, Givens & Smith PC, Dothan, Ala., Daniel G. Abel, Wendell H. Gauthier Gauthier, Downing, LaBarre, Beiser & Dean, Metairie, La., Kenneth M. Carter Carter & Cates, New Orleans, La., Kevin C. Decie Davis, Saperstein & Solomon PC, Teaneck, N.J., Jack D. Maistros, Keith T. Vernon Climaco, Lefkowitz, Peca, Wilcox & Garofoli, Cleveland, Ohio, Robert C. Tarics, Michael Branisa, Michael Zomcik Tarics & Carrington, Houston, Texas, and William M. Griffin Friday, Eldredge & Clark, Little Rock, Ark., for the city of Atlanta. Frank R. Seigel Cofer, Beauchamp, Stradley & Hicks, Atlanta, John S. Kanzler, John Renzulli Renzulli & Rutherford LLC, New York, N.Y., for Glock Inc. Amicus Appellants: Joshua Horwitz Education Fund to End Handgun Violence, Washington, D.C., Michael C. Hewitt Bruinsma & Hewitt, Costa Mesa, Calif. Amicus Appellee: Alfred L. Evans Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
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    Case Number: S00A1530, S00A1533

    The state court's refusal to dismiss the city's suit against a number of firearms manufacturers, distributors and trade associations was not subject to challenge by an action for man

  • Blake v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melvin Abercrombie Abercrombie Law Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Kristin L. Wood, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, 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: S00A1857

    Evidence that defendant threatened to kill the mother of his child shortly before the victim's murder was admissible to rebut his insanity de

  • Atilano v. Board of Comm'rs of Columbia County

    Publication Date: 2001-02-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul W. David, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William J. Keogh III Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley, Harry D. Revell Burnside, Wall, Daniel, Ellison & Revell, Leonard O. Fletcher Jr., Wand William L. Fletcher Fletcher, Harley & Fletcher, Augusta, for appellee. Other party representation: Kay Allen, Tax Commissioner, and Pat Hardaway, Probate Judge, Appling.
    Case Number: S00A2058

    County's interest in relocating a private, abandoned cemetery outweighed any competing interests in leaving the cemetery undist

  • In re Adams

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harlan S. Miller III Parks, Chesin & Miller PC, Atlanta, Hollie G. Manheimer and E. Stephanie Stuckey Stuckey & Manheimer LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathryn L. Allen, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Rebecca S. Mick, Assistant Attorney General, and Hulett H. Askew, Director Officer of Bar Admissions, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0577

    Bar applicant who secured a military discharge by falsely stating under oath that he was a homosexual was denied certification of fitness to practic

  • Bailey v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George D. Bush, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Charles R. Sheppard, Nancy B. Johnson, Assistant District Attorneys, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1540

    Murder defendant was not entitled to a sua sponte mistrial after the state referred to his co-indictee's guilty pleas during opening argu

  • Johnson v. Griffin

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Allen M. Griffin, Hardwick, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: S00A1860

    Defendant's arising from the parole board's determination that he was no longer eligible for parole was not a cognizable habeas

  • McGinn v. McGinn

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew R. Pachman Lawler & Tanner PC and Jean M. Kutner Kutner & Bloom, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alvah O. Smith, Hope C. B. Allen Warner, Mayoue & Bates PC, Atlanta, and Hylton B. Dupree Jr. Dupree, Johnson, Poole & King, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1424

    Wife is entitled to discover the value and reasonable earnings potential of her husband's family-owned stock which is held in a company trust because the husband's interest in the trust is relevant

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen Jackson, Sparta, proceeded pro se. Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, Barnesville, and Wanda G. Johnson, Assistant District Attorney, Forsyth, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S00A1691

    Defendant was not entitled to a second appeal of his convictions for murder and armed ro

  • Security Life Ins. Co. of Am. v. Clark

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Barwick, Teresa W. Roseborough, Robert J. Neis, Amelia T. Rudolph and Carla W. McMillian Sutherland, Asbill & Brennann LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Preyesh K. Maniklal, Hardy Gregory Jr., Davis, Gregory, Christy & Forehand, Cordele, William S. Stone and Kevin R. Dean William S. Stone PC, Blakely, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Harold G. Clarke Troutman Sanders, George E. Duncan Jr. Duncan & Mangiafico, Allen S. Willingham Love & Willingham, Lewis E. Hassett Morris, Manning & Martin, Atlanta, Thomas C. Alexander Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, Billy N. Jones Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, Peter R. Chaffetz, Thomas J. McCormack and Stanley B. Lutz Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York, NY, Victoria E. Fimea, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S00G0006

    The Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals' decision in Security Life Ins. Co. v. Clark, 239 Ga. App. 690 1999, holding that it violated the law of the case doctrine on remand from the Supreme