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  • Ramsey v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elaine T. McGruder, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, David E. Langford, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1447

    Since defendant's statements to the police officer who arrived at the crime scene were spontaneous, they were admissible even though he did not receive Miranda war

  • Hightower v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wilbur T. Gamble III Colquitt & Gamble LLP, Dawson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles M. Ferguson, District Attorney, Cuthbert, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wesley S. Wood, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0087

    Defendant's statements during several interviews at the police station before he was given Miranda rights were admissible since he was not in custody at the time and his statements were not inculp

  • 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

  • Shazer v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ernie M. Sheffield, Colquitt, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, Bainbridge, Robert R. Auman, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Cairo, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0035

    Evidence that defendant threatened to kill his wife if she left him, that the wife died from a gunshot wound inflicted with a pistol held against her chest and that the gun could not have fired acci

  • Carter v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathy S. Palmer, Swainsboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, William S. Askew, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1603

    Although the trial court should have charged on impeachment by conviction since a state witness admitted to his prior felony convictions without objection, that error was harmless given the other e

  • In re R.M.C.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00A0711

    Bar applicant who did not make a consistent effort to pay defaulted student loans or other outstanding debts and who claimed indigence in a civil suit despite having received an income was unfit for

  • Abrams v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter J. Lane Jr., Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles H. Weston, District Attorney, Henry O. Jones III, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1758

    The defendant's ex-wife could testify that he admitted murdering his sister since the evidence contradicted the defendant's claim that he and the ex-wife had a common law mar

  • Morgan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronnie J. Lane, Donalsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, Minerva S. Cansino, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1670

    Defendant failed to show that jurors were not selected randomly merely because they were placed at the top of the jury list for the court's current after they were excused during the previous

  • Floyd v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek H. Jones, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin F. Smith Jr., District Attorney, Debra H. Bernes, Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Mary B. Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1775

    The defendant's admission that he stole a car and drove it to the murder scene corroborated his co-defendant's testimony that the defendant was involved in the fatal stabbing of one of the vi

  • Brooks v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Willie T. Yancey II, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1360

    Juvenile defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his rights before giving a statement to police, since his adult sister accompanied him, he was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol and h