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  • Reaves v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Franklin J. Hogue Hogue & Hogue, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, James L. Wright III, District Attorneys, McDonough, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Kenneth W. Mishoe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1582

    The defendant's stat to an officer were admissible in her trial for the murder of her stepdaughter, since Miranda warnings were not required while she was not in custody and her ambiguous sta

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Verna L. Smith, Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Louis C. Fraser, District Attorney, Robert B. Faircloth, Assistant District Attorney, Dublin, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine T. Parvis, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1759

    Since the felony murder of which the defendant was convicted was premised on child cruelty, those charges merged and the defendant's conviction and sentence for child cruelty was va

  • WILLIAMS-PYRO, INC., Appellant and Cross-Appellee, v. RHONDA BARBOUR, Appellee and Cross-Appellant.

    Publication Date: 2013-03-20
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    Date Filed: 2013-03-20
    Court: COURT OF APPEALS OF TEXAS, EIGHTH DISTRICT, EL PASO
    Judge: ANN CRAWFORD McCLURE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 08-11-00355-CV

    WILLIAMS-PYRO, INC., Appellant and Cross-Appellee, v. RHONDA BARBOUR, Appellee and Cross-Appellant.No. 08-11-00355-CV

  • Harris v. Upton

    Publication Date: 2013-03-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thad C. Kodish, Brian P. Boyd, Jack P. Smith III, General Counsel, Erin P. Alper, General Counsel, and Jacqueline Tio Fish & Richardson PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Elizabeth A. Harris, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1498

    Appellate counsel was not deficient in failing to locate the defendant's trial counsel for the motion for new trial hearing, since she attempted to contact him using information from State Bar reco

  • Colton v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer A. Trieshmann Public Defender's Office, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Robert N. Peterkin, Assistant District Attorney, Greenville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Kenneth W. Mishoe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1761

    The State conceded that this case must be remanded to the trial court for a proper consideration of whether the defendant made his custodial statement to police volunt

  • Heidt v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-01-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Bonds The Bonds Law Firm, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, Michael T. Muldrew, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1430

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in disqualifying one of the defendant's attorneys for a conflict of int

  • Ellis v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-01-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William G. Cromwell, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Sheila E. Gallow, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine L. Iannuzzi, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1923

    The evidence showed that the defendant, his identical twin brother and another gunman engaged in a common enterprise, which involved the defendant luring the victim into his home for the purpose of

  • Arnold v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-01-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James R. McNiff, Winterville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, Brian V. Patterson, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Kenneth W. Mishoe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1669

    The defendant failed to overcome the strong presumption that defense counsel discharged her duties to him with regard to adequately investigating his mental health in an objectively reasonable m

  • Arnold v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis M. Turchiarelli, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, John R. Edwards, Anna G. Cross, Jason R. Samuels, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1895

    The defendant did not show that her guilty plea was involuntary or that she should have been permitted to withdraw the plea to correct a manifest inju

  • Sosniak v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles G. Haldi Jr. Ashway & Haldi LLP, and William A. Finch, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny A. Penn, District Attorney, Cumming, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0799

    Callaway v. State, 275 Ga. 332 2002, and Boseman v. State, 263 Ga. 730 1994, were overruled to the extent that they held that the denial of a pre-trial constitutional speedy trial claim may be direc