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  • Ford Motor Co. v. Lawrence

    Publication Date: 2005-05-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank F. Middleton IV Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless LLP, Albany, Charles K. Reed, James B. Manley Jr., Jill C. Kuhn McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, William D. Barwick, Deborah M. Danzig and Carla W. McMillian Sutherland,, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: George W. Fryhofer III, James E. Butler Jr., Gregory R. Feagle Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer & Daugherty, Atlanta, Andrew J. Hill III Blasingame, Burch, Garrard, Bryant & Ashley, Andrew H. Marshall Begnaud & Marshall LLP, William C. Berryman Jr., Athens, and Alexander T. Galloway III Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0900

    Neither mandamus nor prohibition is an available remedy to seek review of a trial court's ruling, which is subject to appellate review, because the availability of judicial review is an adequate leg

  • Reed v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Covington, for appellant. William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, Marcy H. Gonzalez, James P. Blum Jr., Assistant District Attorneys, Monroe, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S04A1511

    The state had gender-neutral reason's for striking two prospective male j

  • Wallace v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maurice Brown, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0161

    A witness's testimony about a conversation her boyfriend had with the defendant on the afternoon after the murder was admissible as an adoptive admission, since the defendant affirmatively acknowled

  • Kemp v. Simpson

    Publication Date: 2004-10-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karriem Simpson, Stone Mountain, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: S04A1358

    Regardless of defendant's contention that he is only the victim's step-uncle, he admitted that he was the victim's uncle as alleged in the indictment when he pled guilty to the crime of i

  • Lopez v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen F. Lanier, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and Martha P. Jacobs, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0448

    The state gave sufficient reasons for its decision to reindict the defendant on more serious charges after he filed a § 1983 claim against officers in federal

  • 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

  • Spence v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie G. Patterson, LaGrange, for appellant.
    for defendant: Louis J. Kirby, Solicitor, LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1047

    The trial court should have quashed the charge of attempting to elude an officer where state did not allege in the accusation that defendant was eluding an officer or police vehicle when he failed

  • Murphy v. McCaughey

    Publication Date: 2003-07-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Purcell, Michael N. Loebl and Michael B. Hagler Fulcher, Hagler, Reed, Hanks & Harper, Augusta, for Murphy. David E. Hudson Hull, Towill, Barrett & Salley, Augusta, for McCaughey.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A0506; A03A0507

    The plaintiff was entitled to prejudgment interest on a jury award of contribution because a sum recovered as contribution bears interest from the time the surety paid the original oblig

  • Gardner v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shandor S. Badaruddin, Missoula, Mont., for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0370

    The trial court properly denied the defendant's untimely motion to pursue a mental illness de

  • Collier v. Merck

    Publication Date: 2003-05-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry D. Wolfe L. David Wolfe PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles G. Hicks, County Attorney, William J. Linkhous III, Chief Assistant County Attorney, Sam L. Brannen Jr., Assistant County Attorney, Allison L. Byrd and Sonja M. Cox DeKalb County Law Dep't, Decatur, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0249

    The defendant's writ of certiorari appealing his conviction for violating a county ordi was fundamentally flawed since the defendant did not include a copy of the relevant ordi