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State v. Mincher

Publication Date: 2012-02-10
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert E. Brooks Jr., District Attorney, Cedartown, for appellant.
for defendant: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellee.
Case Number: A11A1906

The trial court properly granted the defendant's motion to suppress evidence garnered as a result of a traffic stop for making an illegal right turn, as the stop was unreasonable and not based on th

Weaver v. State

Publication Date: 2011-02-18
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Carley, George H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy L. Eidson, Cordele, for appellant.
for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, Cordele, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S11A0113

Under the circumstances, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in proceeding with the trial in the defendant's absence after he was removed from the courtroom for disruptive beh

Cowart v. Widener

Publication Date: 2010-08-06
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Nahmias, David E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles C. Stebbins III Warlick, Tritt, Stebbins & Murray LLP, Augusta, for appellant.
for defendant: . John A. Davison, Amy R. Snell Fulcher Hagler LLP, Charles C. Mayers, Augusta, J. Edward Allen Jr. Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, and Henry E. Scrudder Jr. Scrudder, Bass, Quillian, Horlock, Taylor & Lazarus LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
Case Number: S09G1177

The plaintiffs did not establish that the defendant's failure to render the decedent aid proximately caused his death from natural causes, since they produced no evidence, expert or otherwise, on th

Cowart v. Widener

Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Nahmias, David E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles C. Stebbins III Warlick, Tritt, Stebbins & Murray LLP, Augusta, for appellant.
for defendant: . John A. Davison, Amy R. Snell Fulcher Hagler LLP, Charles C. Mayers, Augusta, J. Edward Allen Jr. Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, and Henry E. Scrudder Jr. Scrudder, Bass, Quillian, Horlock, Taylor & Lazarus LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
Case Number: S09G1177

The plaintiffs did not establish that the defendant's failure to render the decedent aid proximately caused his death from natural causes, since they produced no evidence, expert or otherwise, on th

Adams v. State

Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Carley, George H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Persse, Statesboro, for appellant.
for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, and Daphne H. Jarriel, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.
Case Number: S09G1927

The presumption of vindictiveness in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U. S. 711 1969, whenever more a severe sentence is imposed, after a new trial, is not triggered, unless the new aggregate sentence

Rana v. State

Publication Date: 2010-07-16
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
Attorneys: For plaintiff: McNeill Stokes, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, and Rocky L. Bridges, Assistant District Attorney, Woodbine, for appellee.
Case Number: A10A0424

The defendant asked a detective with the Kingsland Police Department to have his uncle killed, described his location, and paid the detective $7K, when he believed the murder to have been comp

Moore v. State

Publication Date: 2009-12-18
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Adams, A. Harris
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Katherine M. Mason, Augusta, for appellant.
for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
Case Number: A09A1047

The defendant's movement of the victim from a vehicle into a ditch did not constitute asportation, because the movement was minimal in duration, done in the commission of other offenses and did not

Whatley v. Terry

Publication Date: 2008-10-17
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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Case Number: S08A1076

The defendant could not show prejudice from the state's failure to give him an audio recording of an eyewitness's statements, in which the eyewitness gave contradictory statements regarding

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State v. Lejeune

Publication Date: 2003-02-21
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Carley, George H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, and Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Atlanta, for the state. Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, and August F. Siemon III, Atlanta, for Lejeune.
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Case Number: S02A1277; S02A1346; S02A1349

Police lacked probable cause to search defendant's vehicle that was legally parked in defendant's residential parking space when defendant and his girlfriend were arrested for suspected m