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  • Usher v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Martin Jr. Martin & Maguire, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard R. Reed, District Attorney, Robert W. Houman and Roberta A. Earnhardt, Assistant District Attorneys, Conyers, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1332

    The county jury commission was authorized to use the 1990 Census numbers to compile the 2000 grand jury list since it was the most recent decennial census available when the list was com

  • Harrell v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Edwards, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Justo C. Cabral III, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1099

    The trial court's error, if any, in incorrectly informing the defendant that he could seek a review of his sentence for malice murder had no impact on the defendant's decision to enter his plea bec

  • Redi Floors Inc. v. The Sonenberg Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-04-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harriet C. Isenberg Isenberg & Hewitt, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jay E. Loeb Olim & Loeb LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1841

    Management company assumed personal liability for contract to purchase and install carpeting in apartment co by entering into contract without disclosing to defendant that it did not own the co

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Orin L. Alexis, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Benjamin B. Reed, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1696

    Defendant's conviction for possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony merged as a matter of fact with his conviction under O.C.G.A. § 16-1

  • State v. Bowen

    Publication Date: 2002-02-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry Rylee, Solicitor, and Larry A. Baldwin II, Assistant Solicitor, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter M. Britt and Deborah F. Weiss Chandler & Britt LLC, Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0417

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's opinion that O.C.G.A. § 35-3-155 exempts the Forensic Sciences Division of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation from the publishing requirements of th

  • 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

  • Edmond v. Continental Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry E. Stewart, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David H. Hanks Fulcher, Hagler, Reed, Hanks & Harper, Augusta, for appellees. Other party representation: Michael A. O'Quinn Barnhart, O'Quinn & Williams, McDonough.
    Case Number: A01A0226

    Any duty that defendant may have owed to the underlying plaintiffs fell within his insurance policy's business exclusion because such duty arose out of or in connection with his county emplo

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leo E. Benton Jr., Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, and E. Paul Stanley, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1913

    The trial court erred in refusing to grant defendant credit for time s

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eugene Felton Jr. Davis & Felton PC, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelley R. Burke, District Attorney, and Amy E. L. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1964

    The trial court's error in admitting hearsay testimony regarding a prior drug transaction did not contribute to defendant's conviction for selling co

  • Gibson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0790

    The trial court's inquiry into the numerical division of the deadlocked did not violate the defendant's right to a fair and impartial