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  • In the Matter of Thomas C. Sinowski; In the Matter of Steven F. Freedman

    Publication Date: 2011-12-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, Paula J. Frederick, General Counsel, and Jonathan W. Hewett, Assistant General Counsel State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Foy R. Devine, Vivian D. Hoard Taylor, English Duma, and Robert D. Feagin Martenson, Hasbrouch & Simon LLP, Atlanta. Anthony B. Askew, Chairperson Review Panel, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S11Y0485; S11Y0486

    Two attorneys, who paid non-lawyer runners for referrals in at least 1376 cases and kept a record of those payments in a runner book, were disb

  • White v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Reggie A. Lampkin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0580

    The evidence supported the defendant's conviction for concealing a death, since he hindered discovery of the facts that the victim was dead from an unlawful homicide when he removed her body from th

  • Atlanta Oculoplastic Surgery PC v. Nestlehutt

    Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan C. Peters, Melissa B. Johnson Peters & Monyak LLP, Thomas S. Carlock and Eric J. Frisch Carlock Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael B. Terry, Sarah M. Shalf Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, James D. Summerville The Bird Law Group PC, Frank A. Ilardi Houck, Ilardi & Regas LLC and Rosser A. Malone, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09A1432

    The damage cap in O.C.G.A. § 51-13-1 unconstitutionally infringed upon the right to a jury trial, because it undermined the jury's basic function as factfinder by nullifying any portion of a jury's

  • Humphreys v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchel D. Durham, Jimmy D. Berry, Marietta, Carl P. Greenberg Georgia Capital Defender, Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr., Atlanta, and Holly L. Geerdes Geerdes & Kim LLC, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Teresa M. Schiefer, Assistant Attorney General, and Richard A. Malone Prosecuting Attorneys' Council, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09P1428

    The statutory aggravating circumstance set forth under O.C.G.A. § 17-10-30 b 10 regarding murders committed for the purpose of avoiding, interfering with, or preventing lawful arrest, does not exten

  • Ruffin v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-07-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S08A0493

    Under the circumstances, the more than 2-year delay between the defendant's indictment and the denial of his motion to dismiss did not violate the defendant's constitutional speedy trial r

  • Dixon v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fred R. Simpson, Rome, David Balser, James D. Dantzler Jr., James A. Washburn and Thomas B. Bosch McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, John F. McClellan Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Nicholas A. Lotito, Atlanta, Michael E. Paulhus, William D. Iverson, Claire G. Kunstling Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S04A0072

    The defendant was entitled to the lessor of two punishments under the rule of lenity because the two statutes-misdemeanor statutory rape and felony child molestation-are in con

  • Dixon v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fred R. Simpson, Rome, David Balser, James D. Dantzler Jr., James A. Washburn and Thomas B. Bosch McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, John F. McClellan Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Nicholas A. Lotito, Atlanta, Michael E. Paulhus, William D. Iverson, Claire G. Kunstling Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S04A0072

    The defendant was entitled to the lessor of two punishments under the rule of lenity because the two statutes-misdemeanor statutory rape and felony child molestation-are in con

  • Zwiren v. Thompson

    Publication Date: 2003-04-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P. Monyak, Anna B. Fretwell and Luca W. Andrews Love Willingham Peters Gilleland Monyak, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jim N. Peterson Jr. Peterson & Harris, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: Thomas S. Carlock Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, Atlanta. Amicus Appellee: John S. Taylor Taylor, Harp & Callier, Columbus. Neutral amicus: Antoinette D. Johnson Boone & Stone, Atlanta, and William S. Stone Boone & Stone, Blakely.
    Case Number: S02G1063

    The trial court did not reversibly err in charging the jury that a medical malpractice plaintiff had to prove her case within a reasonable degree dical certainty, rather than a reasonable degre

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel A. Summer Summer & Summer and Elizabeth B. Reisman, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason J. Deal, District Attorney, Lisa A. Jones and Jennifer C. Bagwell, Assistant District Attorneys, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0595

    Hispanics were not underrepresented on Hall County's traverse jury list, despite a presumptively prejudicial 14.5 percent disparity between the 2000 Census and the master trial jury list, since only

  • Fitz v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Andrew Fernandez, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0934

    The affidavit which set forth specific information connecting defendant to the murder victims provided a substantial basis for the magistrate to conclude that probable cause existed to issue the sea