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  • State v. Nash

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, and Charles M. Stines, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ernie M. Sheffield, Bainbridge, James C. Bonner Jr. and Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore Georgia Public Defender Council, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1315

    The agent's questions about how the defendant came into police custody did not constitute routine booking questions, which are exempt from Mi

  • Lewis v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg Fulton County Pub. Defender Inc., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Anne E. Green, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0627

    The defendant killed one victim for the sole purpose of causing his wife emotional distress, then shot at several strangers, killing one of them, in an attempt to create the illusion of an unknown k

  • Bernocchi v. Forcucci

    Publication Date: 2005-07-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael W. Higgins Higgins & Dubner, Atlanta, for appellants. Charlotte K. Perrell Perrell & Wright LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S05A0483

    Trial court erred in granting appellee's motion for an interlocutory injunction pending the resolution of his claim regarding the issuance of stock in a company he co-owned with two others, without

  • McKenzie v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-05-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P. McFarland Jr. McFarland & Assocs. PC, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leslie C. Abernathy, Solicitor General, Inez Grant and Carlton T. Hayes, Assistant Solicitors General, Cumming, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Elizabeth V. Tanis, Sidney L. Moore III and Drew D. Dropkin Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S05A0298

    O.C.G.A. § 46-5-21 a 1-imposing a ban on indecent, lascivious, filthy and obscene telephonic communication-is unconstitutionally over

  • Ford Motor Co. v. Lawrence

    Publication Date: 2005-05-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank F. Middleton IV Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless LLP, Albany, Charles K. Reed, James B. Manley Jr., Jill C. Kuhn McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, William D. Barwick, Deborah M. Danzig and Carla W. McMillian Sutherland,, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: George W. Fryhofer III, James E. Butler Jr., Gregory R. Feagle Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer & Daugherty, Atlanta, Andrew J. Hill III Blasingame, Burch, Garrard, Bryant & Ashley, Andrew H. Marshall Begnaud & Marshall LLP, William C. Berryman Jr., Athens, and Alexander T. Galloway III Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0900

    Neither mandamus nor prohibition is an available remedy to seek review of a trial court's ruling, which is subject to appellate review, because the availability of judicial review is an adequate leg

  • Namik v. Wachovia Banks of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2005-05-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Kaufman, Stephen R. Klorfein, Jason S. Adler Kaufman, Chaiken, Miller & Klorfein LLP, and Charlotte K. Perrell Perrell & Wright LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William J. Linkous Jr., David G. Ross and Nicole J. Wade Powell Goldstein LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S04G0857

    Some evidence supported the trial court's finding that a bank breached its fiduciary duty as trustee of a revocable living trust when it failed to invest the decedent's funds in accordance with his

  • Lucas v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Floyd M. Buford Jr. Buford & Buford, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Elizabeth K. Bobbitt, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0376

    Given the overwhelming evidence of the defendant's guilt, he could not show harm from his counsel's failure to request a charge on good char

  • Lucas v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Floyd M. Buford Jr. Buford & Buford, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Elizabeth K. Bobbitt, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0376

    Given the overwhelming evidence of the defendant's guilt, he could not show harm from his counsel's failure to request a charge on good char

  • Namik v. Wachovia Banks of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2005-03-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Kaufman, Stephen R. Klorfein, Jason S. Adler Kaufman, Chaiken, Miller & Klorfein LLP, and Charlotte K. Perrell Perrell & Wright LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William J. Linkous Jr., David G. Ross and Nicole J. Wade Powell Goldstein LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S04G0857

    Some evidence supported the trial court's finding that a bank breached its fiduciary duty as trustee of a revocable living trust when it failed to invest the decedent's funds in accordance with his

  • Wimberly v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall M. Clark and Bart G. Altman, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Charles K. Higgins, Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorneys, Brunswick, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1870

    Defendant failed to show how the 38-month delay between his indictment on capital murder charges and his trial was presumptively prejud