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Grimes v. State

Publication Date: 2014-11-20
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Judge: Benham, Robert
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Case Number: S14A1162; S14A1163; S14A1516; S14A1533

A co-indictee's cellmate's statement to a detective about the details of a fatal shooting, which implicated three of the defendants, was admissible under the co-conspirator exception to the hearsay

Colton v. State

Publication Date: 2014-11-20
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hines, P. Harris
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, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ryan A. Kolb, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S14A0703

No evidence showed that the defendant was incapable of understanding and knowingly waiving his Miranda rights, despite his recorded I.Q.

Ruffin v. State

Publication Date: 2014-11-20
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Benham, Robert
Attorneys: For plaintiff: T. Mack Taylor, Evans, for appellant.
for defendant: Fredric D. Bright, District Attorney, Gray, Reginald L. Bellury, Assistant District Attorney, Milledgeville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ryan A. Kolb, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S14A1361

The evidence did not support jury charges on mutual combat or voluntary manslaughter after the defendant murdered a fellow i

Smith v. State

Publication Date: 2014-11-07
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Benham, Robert
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P. McFarland Jr. McFarland & McFarland, Cumming, for appellant.
for defendant: Penny A. Penn, District Attorney, James A. Dunn, Assistant District Attorney, Cumming, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Christian A. Fuller, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S14A1103

The evidence did not support a jury charge on accident, since the defendant never admitted starting the house fire that killed her hu

Slaton v. State

Publication Date: 2014-11-07
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Benham, Robert
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, Decatur, for appellant.
for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Andrew G. Sims, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S14A1156

The defendant's conduct before, during and after a fatal shooting in which he advised, encouraged and counseled a co-indictee to come rescue him "with guns blazing" authorized the jury to find him g

November 7, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

Pelvic Mesh MCL Moved to Bergen

MULTICOUNTY LITIGATION REASSIGNMENT – PELVIC MESH A notice was previously published advising of the Supreme Court’s September 13, 2010 Order assigning all pending and f

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Browner v. State

Publication Date: 2014-11-06
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Benham, Robert
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan P. Waters, Macon, for appellant.
for defendant: K. David Cooke Jr., District Attorney, Shelley T. Milton, Dorothy V. Hull, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason M. Rea, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S14A1689

The trial court properly admitted into evidence four photographs of the murder victim's body to show the nature and extent of the victim's fatal gunshot w

Levin v. Morales

Publication Date: 2014-10-10
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Benham, Robert
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore Mercer Law School, Macon, for appellant.
for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Vicki S. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Daniel M. King Jr. King Law Group, Dublin, for appellee.
Case Number: S14A0691

The habeas court erred in denying the petitioner's challenge to his conviction for kidnapping with bodily injury, as the evidence was insufficient to establish the element of asportation in accordan

Miller v. State

Publication Date: 2014-10-09
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Benham, Robert
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan P. Waters, Macon, for appellant.
for defendant: Karl D. Cooke Jr., District Attorney, Sandra G. Matson, Myra H. Tisdale, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Meghan H. Hill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S14A0597

Evidence that the defendant threatened the witnesses to his girlfriend's murder if they did not help him dispose of her body authorized the jury to find that the witnesses were not accomplices in an

Hardman v. Hardman

Publication Date: 2014-09-30
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Nahmias, David E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Noell Jr. and Kevin G. Sweat Cook Noell Tolley & Bates LLP, Athens, for appellant.
for defendant: J. Matthew Anthony, Nancy I. Jordan, and C. Wilbur Warner Jr. Warner, Bates, McCough, McGinnis & Portnoy, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Roger B. Lane, Brunswick.
Case Number: S14A1187

The trial court erred in applying the doctrine of res judicata "mechanically" in the context of a divorce