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  • Dean v. Tabsum Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert A. Falanga Falanga & Chalker and Allen E. Bates Allen E. Bates & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Robert C. Edwards, Assistant Attorney General, Bruce A. Taylor Jr. Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Mark L. Stuckey, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S00A1331

    O.C.G.A. § 50-21-28 establishes venue in suits against the state, even if the state is not the sole tortf

  • State v. Freeman

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarkesville, and Robert D. Cullifer, Assistant District Attorney, Clayton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce S. Harvey, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellants: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S00A1108

    The defendant's convictions for being a party to the felony murder and for hindering the apprehension of the murderer were mutually excl

  • Thompson v. Ezor

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hunter S. Allen Jr., Scott A. Miller, Gary R. McCain Allen, Weathington & Reeves PC, and Michael D. Flint Krevolin & Horst LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Samuel S. Olens Ezor & Olens PC, Atlanta, and Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00G0613

    The self-contradictory testimony rule does not apply to the testimony of non-party expert witn

  • Drake v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Penny D. Furr, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, George W.K. Snyder, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0699

    The trial court correctly recharged the jury after erroneously charging that the jury could not consider voluntary manslaughter until after it ruled out malice and felony m

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

    Publication Date: 2000-09-22
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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, DC.
    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

  • Klink v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
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    Case Number: S00A0503, S00A0874

    The fact that the legislature included a warning in O.C.G.A. § 52-7-12.5's implied consent notice to boaters that chemical test results may be used against them at trial does not mean that the absen

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kirk E. Gilliard Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wesley S. Wood, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0037

    The state could ask the defendant if he had "Thug Life" tattooed on his abdomen, since that evidence was relevant to the defendant's possible motive for committing a drive-by sho

  • Holmes v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Sussman, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Augusta, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0103

    The witness's presence during part of defendant's trial did not preclude him from testifying, since a violation of the rule of sequestration goes to the weight and credibility of a witness's testimo

  • Stone v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Russell J. Parker, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0314

    The defendant was not entitled to have an out-of-state att conduct portions of his trial because he was already represented by a competent Georgia att

  • Allen v. Dominy

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Arthur L. Phillips Phillips & Phillips, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter J. Lane Jr., Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0215

    When the defendant deeded the decedent's property to herself in fee simple, she breached her duty as the decedent's agent to obtain a deed which would protect and provide for the decedent's