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  • Greer v. Thompson

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Mark A. Gilbert, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James N. Finkelstein, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1431

    The trial court did not improperly express an opinion when it read two notes from the jury and stated that someone offered a bribe on the defendant's b

  • Ellis v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: E. Paul Stanley, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, Dawsonville, and Alison W. Toller, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1500

    The trial court properly directed the jury to deliberate further, when the jury failed to decide the lesser included off

  • Walker v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward W. Clary, St. Marys, and Richard O. Allen, Atlantic Beach, Fla., for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, George C. Turner Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Woodbine, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Patricia B. A. Burton, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Holly L. Geerdes, Georgia Capital Defender, Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr., and Richard A. Malone Prosecuting Attorneys' Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S06P0992

    The state's failure to include the statutory aggravating circumstances in its notice of intent to seek the death penalty was harmless, since one of the statutory circumstances on which the state rel

  • State v. Aiken

    Publication Date: 2006-09-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William K. Wynn Jr., District Attorney, and Stephen L. Coxen District Attorney's Office, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: John L. Strauss, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0967

    The trial court did not err in determining that the state probation officer's statement was co

  • Hicks v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard M. Nichols Preston & Preston, Douglas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Waycross, and Kurt J. Martin, Assistant District Attorney, Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1626

    The defendant engaged in a prima facie case of racial discrimination, when he used all of his strikes against white j

  • Smithson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald R. Parker, Assistant Pub. Defender, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, and Ryan C. Cleveland, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1101

    Marijuana plants, which were growing in areas separated by trails leading away from the defendant's mowed land and were not growing inside any structure or protected from view, were outside curtilag

  • Little v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael E. Bergin, Fairburn, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Atha H. Pryor, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1170

    The trial court did not err in refusing to compel the state to reveal the identity of the confidential informant, who arranged to buy methamphetamine from the defendant at a Wal-Mart parkin

  • Phillips v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William C. Lea and Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William S. Askew, District Attorney, and Mary K. Mitchell, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0376

    The trial court properly admitted pictures of the defe s damaged vehicle, which officers found in plain sight in the back of his home while investigating the victim's report that he saw the def

  • Traylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A2101

    The defendant properly raised his incompetency claims via his motion for new trial and he presented expert evidence, which called his competency to stand trial into

  • In the Interest of A. R. A. S.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Webb, Assistant Public Defender, Chatsworth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Cynthia N. Johnson, Cohutta, for appellee. Other party representation: Philip F. Woodward, Dalton.
    Case Number: A06A0331

    Parents have no right to refuse to testify at a parental rights hearing, even to avoid self-incrimination, and, if a parent refuses to testify, the trial court is authorized to draw a negative infer