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  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-09-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn M. Friedewald, Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, and Jennifer M. Daniels, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0306

    An arresting officer was properly allowed to testify regarding a concerned citizen's tip since the tip explained the officer's co

  • Brandon v. Newman

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith F. Brandon Zimmerman & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel W. Cruse, Augusta, for appellee. Other party representation: Elizabeth McLeod Fulcher, Hagler, Reed, Hanks & Harper, Augusta.
    Case Number: A99A1776

    The plaintiff could not enforce his attorney's lien against the defendant's personal injury settlement because the underlying retainer agreement was inexplicably entwined with an unethical fee-split

  • Bergeson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David M. Rosenberg and David E. Ralston, Blue Ridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roger G. Queen, District Attorney, William B. Britt, Assistant District Attorney, Ellijay, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0046

    The trial court was not required to sequester the jury during the defendant's murder trial, because the state did not seek the death pe

  • Hodo v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas and Jo Ann Claudrick, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, George W.K. Snyder Jr., Senior Assistant District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Phyllis M. Burgess, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jeanne K. Strickland, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1557

    Trial court's denial of defendant's request for sequestered voir dire did not deny defendant the right to a fair and impartial jury, since there was no evidence that the entire venire was tainted by

  • Simmons v. Hill

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry L. Miller and Gee G. Vaughn Mitchell & Mitchell, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert A. Cowan Kinney, Kemp, Sponcler, Joiner & Tharpe, Dalton, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A1939

    Father was not liable under the family purpose doctrine for his 18-year-old son's accident, even though the father owned the wrecked truck, since the son did not live with his parents at the time of

  • Robinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jana M. Whaley, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0029

    Since state crime lab expert could not say what effect cocaine had on the murder victim, his testimony that the victim consumed cocaine and a detective's testimony that the victim had cocaine in his

  • Reed v. Secretary, Florida Dep't of Corrections, Attorney General

    Publication Date: 2010-01-19
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    Date Filed: 2010-01-11
    Court: 11th Cir.
    Judge: Hull, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 09-10059

    PUBLISHBefore DUBINA, Chief Judge, CARNES and HULL, Circuit Judges.Florida death-row inmate Grover Reed appeals the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of ha

  • January 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Litigation Department of the Year Product Liability Winner: Reed Smith

    In 2008 Reed Smith partner Michael Brown reached lawyer nirvana. After years of barnstorming around the country winning pretrial and appellate victories on preemption grounds f

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  • September 30, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection List of Ineligible Attorneys

    The Supreme Court has entered an Order declaring in le to practice law in New Jersey those attorneys not in compliance with the 2002 annual assessment. That Order and the list of in

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  • January 1, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Mass Appeal: Reed Smith

    Product Liability Winner In 2008 Reed Smith partner Michael Brown reached lawyer nirvana. After years of barnstorming arou

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