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  • Boatman v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward F. Smith, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, James D. Lamb, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1469

    Police officer did not subject defendant to coercive, custodial interrogation by approaching defendant on the roadside and asking his name, where he was from and how long he had been in the

  • Peek v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monte K. Davis and George A. Stein, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor General, and Kimberly V. Gross, Assistant Solicitor General, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99G0592

    Computer printout of hospital employee's "education cumulative report" was insufficient under O.C.G.A. § 40-6-392 to prove that employee was a phlebotomist authorized to draw defendant's blood for b

  • SCI Liquidating Corp. v. Hartford Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Hine Jr. Hine & Niedrach PC, Rome, and Erin M. Richardson, Maplewood, for appellant.
    for defendant: Malcolm P. Smith Lokey & Smith, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellants: Eugene R. Anderson, Richard P. Lewis Anderson, Kill & Olick PC, New York, NY, and Amy Bach, Mill Valley, Calif.
    Case Number: S99Q1575

    Since sexual harassment does not arise out of employment, exclusion in employer's policy barring coverage for employee injuries arising out of and in the course of employment did not

  • Jenkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert F. Pirkle Pirkle & Pirkle, Hinesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Thomas Durden Jr., District Attorney, Hinesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary B. Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1805

    Evidence showed that defendant was a party to the crime, since his friend argued with the victim, defendant threw his car keys to his friend and told him to get a gun out of the trunk, and his frie

  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hurl R. Taylor Jr., Ellenwood, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard, District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Peggy A. Katz, Anne E. Green, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0136

    Defendant's attorney was not ineffective just because he failed to submit written requests to charge, since he participated in the charge conference and orally requested ch

  • Romano v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin S. Cauley, Cairo, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, Minerva S. Cansino, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1738

    Defendant voluntarily and knowingly entered his guilty pleas to two counts of murder, since he understood the charges, the possibility of rece life sentences and the rights he was wa

  • Adams v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert W. Lenzer and Thomas P. Lenzer Lenzer & Lenzer, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, George F. Hutchinson III, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wesley S. Wood, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1714

    Defendant's previous arrest and imprisonment following his dispute with and assault on the v was admissible to prove his motive for murdering the v

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monte K. Davis, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor General, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99G0903

    Hotel and lodging costs for state's out-of-state witnesses could not be imposed against defendant convicted o

  • In re J.L.A.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Case Number: S00A0242

    Florida attorney is ineligible for sit for the Georgia Attorney's Examination, since the Florida Supreme Court injunction barring him from soliciting business from Valujet accident victims' families

  • Shields v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph A. Homans Fox, Chandler, Homans, Hicks & McKinnon, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, Margaret Schnee-Gregory, Deputy District Attorney, Gainesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1774

    Since there was no evidence that the defendant and the victim struggled or otherwise indicated that defendant shot herself in self-defense, evidence of the victim's prior violent acts was inadmis