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Brown v. State

Publication Date: 2009-01-02
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd W. Walker, Peachtree City, for appellant.
for defendant: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Fayetteville, Robert W. Smith Jr., Randall K. Coggin, Assistant District Attorneys, Griffin, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S08A1878

The defendant failed to show that the pretrial publicity of his case created an inherently prejudicial atmosphere or affected the jurors' ability to be fair and impa

October 17, 2008 |

Risk Identification - Archived Article

Identifies common allegations contained in actions against company directors and officers and explains the duties that directors and officers owe to their organizations. Outlines various federal and state laws that impact these individuals.

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Kolar v. State

Publication Date: 2008-07-25
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Court: Court of Appeals
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Case Number: A08A1429

Any alleged constitutional error in failing to have the jury consider the mitigating factors set forth in O.C.G.A. § 16-6-4 b 2-that the victim was at least 14 years old and the defendant was

Humphrey v. Wilson

Publication Date: 2007-11-09
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, And Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for Humphrey, Warden in S07A1481. Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, and Franklin J. Hogue Hogue & Hogue, Macon, for Wilson. James D. McDade, District Attorney, Douglasville, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for the State in S07A1606. Amicus appellee: David Balser McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, and Cleve L. Molette, East Point.
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Case Number: S07A1481; S07A1606

The defendant's 10-year sentence without possibility of parole for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old when defendant was 17 constituted cruel and unusual punis

Delgado v. State

Publication Date: 2007-08-31
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam M. Hames, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Melanie B. McCrorey, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
Case Number: A07A1499

The trial court harmlessly erred in admitting an audiotape of the victim's account of the incident in question without redacting certain testimonial out-of-court statements, since the evidence agai

Boyt v. State

Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James P. Theodocion, Augusta, for appellant.
for defendant: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Fayetteville, Robert H. English, Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, and Josh W. Thacker Meriwether County Courthouse, Greenville, for appellee.
Case Number: A07A0025

The victim's testimony that the defendant put his fingertips into her vagina supported his aggravated sexual battery convi

Georgia Pine Community Serv. Bd. v. Summerlin

Publication Date: 2007-07-13
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary L. Seacrest and Annarita M. Busbee Seacrest, Karesh, Tate & Bicknese LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Cale H. Conley, Richard A. Griggs Conley Griggs LLP, Atlanta, and C. Frederick Overby Overby Law Office PC, Columbus, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Loretta L. Pinkston and Jennifer L. Dalton, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta.
Case Number: S06G1461

Both O.C.G.A. § 9-11-4 and 50-21-35 apply to service of process under the Georgia Tort Claim

Fulton County v. Galberaith

Publication Date: 2007-07-06
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Carley, George H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Overtis H. Brantley, Steven E. Rosenberg, Sudevi N. Ghosh and Valerie A. Ross Fulton County Attorneys, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: . David H. Flint, Mark W. Forsling Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Wendell K. Willard Willard & Sullivan, Dana K. Maine Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, and Laurel E. Henderson Henderson & Hundley PC, Decatur.
Case Number: S07A0032

Several sections of the Fulton county zoning ordinance are unconstitutionally broad for declaring that all outdoor signs are presumptively illegal throughout the county, to be exempted only on a cas

Walker v. Johnson

Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Chad E. Jacobs and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: George T. Jackson Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, for appellee.
Case Number: S07A0261

The defendant's convictions for armed robbery, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault, burglary and a firearms offense vacated, since the state failed to produce to the defense audiotapes

Gonzalez v. State

Publication Date: 2007-03-16
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: William C. Lea Garland, Samuel & Loeb, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, and Bruce E. Roberts, Assistant District Attorney, LaFayette, for appellee.
Case Number: A06A2392

The investigator's actions in requesting a lower bond did not constitute a hope of benefit under O.C.G.A. § 24