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  • Phillips v. Hanse

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Sleppy, Edward E. Strain III Cathey & Strain, Cornelia, and Matthew T. Allen, Santa Ynez, Calif., for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert D. Ware, Rolesia B. Dancy and Overtis H. Brantley County Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06G0632

    The defendant's decision to engage in a high-speed chase constituted a discretionary act, even though he allegedly violated several provisions in a county police m

  • Walker v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward W. Clary, St. Marys, and Richard O. Allen, Atlantic Beach, Fla., for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, George C. Turner Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Woodbine, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Patricia B. A. Burton, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Holly L. Geerdes, Georgia Capital Defender, Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr., and Richard A. Malone Prosecuting Attorneys' Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S06P0992

    The state's failure to include the statutory aggravating circumstances in its notice of intent to seek the death penalty was harmless, since one of the statutory circumstances on which the state rel

  • 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

  • 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

  • Walton v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-10-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, St. Marys, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amy H. McChesney, Rose L. Wing, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Raina Nadler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1326

    The circumstances of the victim's gunshot wounds, his agonizing pain at the time and his death shortly thereafter established a prima facie showing for admission of his statements to his brother as

  • 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

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jody E. Allen, Oglethorpe, proceeded pro se. Dennis C. Sanders, District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S03A1256

    Defendant waived his right to appeal as part of his plea agre

  • Wilson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, St. Marys, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, C. Lance Cross, Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jennifer S. Gill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0548

    The Court overruled a line of cases, which have blurred the distinction between the entire waiver of an ineffective assistance claim and the waiver of only the right to an evidentiary hearing, to ex

  • Belsar v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-03-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Patricia G. Hull, Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jill M. Zubler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1862

    Defendant and the other assailants returned to an apartment complex with the specific intent to ambush the victims and they bragged about shooting someone in the face after the c

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-04-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Demetria N. Williams DeKalb County Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Elisabeth G. Macnamara, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1426

    The trial court did not err in excluding unrelated evidence that the murder victim abused his girlfriend and may have kidnapped her at one