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  • Maddox v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dorothy K. McCranie The Kirbo Law Firm, Moultrie, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian A. McDaniel, District Attorney, Moultrie, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1682

    The record supported the trial court's finding that the 17-year-old defendant knowingly and voluntarily waived his rights when he pled guilty to m

  • Security Life Ins. Co. of Am. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2005-01-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Barwick, Teresa W. Roseborough and Carl W. McMillan Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sidney S. Haskins II, Benjamin F. Easterlin IV, Byron Attridge King & Spalding, Hardy Gregory Jr. Preyesh K. Maniklal Gregory, Christy, Maniklal & Dennis LLP and J. Alexander Porter Porter, Orrison & Doster LLP, Atlanta,
    Case Number: S04G0322

    The Court of Appeals erred in ruling that an Unliquidated Damages Interest Act, O.C.G.A. § 51-12-14 UDIA, determination should be made on an award of compensatory damages augmented by a variety of o

  • Security Life Ins. Co. of Am. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Barwick, Teresa W. Roseborough and Carl W. McMillan Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sidney S. Haskins II, Benjamin F. Easterlin IV, Byron Attridge King & Spalding, Hardy Gregory Jr. Preyesh K. Maniklal Gregory, Christy, Maniklal & Dennis LLP and J. Alexander Porter Porter, Orrison & Doster LLP, Atlanta,
    Case Number: S04G0322

    The Court of Appeals erred in ruling that an Unliquidated Damages Interest Act, O.C.G.A. § 51-12-14 UDIA, determination should be made on an award of compensatory damages augmented by a variety of o

  • Postell v. Humphrey

    Publication Date: 2004-11-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Postell, Pelham, proceeded pro se. Mark A. Gilbert, Valdosta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S04A1253

    O.C.G.A. § 17-10-1 does not implicate ex post facto con

  • Chatman v. Mancill

    Publication Date: 2004-10-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Pereira, Stone Mountain, James C. Bonner Jr., Sarah L. Gerwig Georgia Indigent Defense Council, and Marcus C. Chamblee, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1150

    The habeas court must determine whether the defendant has overcome the procedure bar to his claim that he was deprived of his right to due process by virtue of a 7-year post-conviction appellate del

  • Bolden v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-10-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby D. Wilson, Roswell, for Bolden. Luana K. Walsh, Atlanta, for Lindsey. Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S04A1473; S04A1526

    Defendant's pre-Miranda statement was admissible, even though she made the statement after police transported her to the station in handcuffs, since the handcuffs were merely a safety measure for th

  • Inserection, A Fantasy Store v. City of Marietta

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan I. Begner, Eric L. Jenson, Katie K. Wood and Cory G. Begner Begner & Begner PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Douglas R. Haynie, Harbert S. Gregory Jr. and Melissa A. P. Haisten Haynie, Litchfield & Crane PC, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0249

    An adult novelty store's appeal of the grant of a TRO against its continued operation based on its sale of allegedly obscene material was moot since the store's business license had ex

  • Union County v. CGP Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-12-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dana K. Maine and Paul B. Frickey Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for Union County. John W. Harbin, Simon H. Bloom and Bryan E. Busch Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, for CGP Inc.
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    Case Number: S03A0669; S03X0670

    A county's flood ordinances are not subject to municipal zoning regulations since they apply to all property in county subject to specified physical phenomenon-periodic flooding in this

  • Moon v. Moon

    Publication Date: 2003-12-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Fletcher Jr. and Michael R. Dunham Gibson, Deal & Fletcher, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick J. Fox McNally, Fox & Grant PC, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03F0991

    Any error in the trial court's refusal to hear the testimony of the couple's 14 and 13-year-old children at the final hearing on the divorce was harmless since the trial court determined that the mo

  • Cresent Hill Apts. v. Admiral Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2003-12-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William K. Carmichael and David M. Lilenfeld Stokes, Lazarus & Carmichael LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John D. Hipes Hipes & Norton PC, Alpharetta, and Edward A. Miller Gray, Rust, St Amand, Muffett & Brieske, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S03Q1237

    O.C.G.A. § 33-24-44 b, requires both mailing of the notice and evidence of the mailing from the United States Postal Se