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  • Perdue v. O'Kelley

    Publication Date: 2006-07-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Stephen E. Ritter, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Charles C. Stebbins III Warlick, Tritt & Stebbins LLP, Augusta, and Glen Lavy Alliance Defense Fund, Scottsdale, Ariz., for appellant.
    for defendant: John E. Stephenson Jr., Jeffrey J. Swart Alston & Bird LLP, Gerald R. Weber Jr., Elizabeth L. Littrell American Civil Liberties Union, and Jack H. Senterfitt Lambda Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus appellee: Scott C. Titshaw Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Miles J. Alexander, Alexander S. Clay, Michael W. Tyler and Jill Warner Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta. Amicus appellant: Brent M. Estes Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, Anita L. Staver, Erik W. Stanley, Rena M. Lindvaldsen and David M. Corry, Lynchburg, Va.
    Case Number: S06A1574

    Art. 1, Sec. 4, Par. 1 of the Georgia Constitution of 1983-which defines the recognition of marriage as only the union of man and woman and states that no union between persons of the same sex shall

  • Watkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-10-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Raina Nadler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0961

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion when it permitted the assistant district attorney to make his closing argument while seated in the witness chair and to comment on the bravery the witnes