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  • Kellam v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-02-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Rocky Adams, Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Louis C. Fraser, District Attorney, Dublin, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Michael A. Oldham, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S15A1913

    The evidence did not authorize jury charges on the defense of accident or involuntary manslaughter in the defendant's trial arising out of the death of a 17-month-old child who was in his

  • Pollard v. Pollard

    Publication Date: 2015-04-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank W. Hamilton and Kimberly Colmey Hamilton Legal Services LLC, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Pollard, Atlanta, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: S15A0041

    A contempt order arising out of a divorce action ordering the wife to take out a life insurance policy for at least $50K naming the husband as the sole beneficiary, or alternatively, to establish a

  • Grimes v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-11-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    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

  • Brett v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-11-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Bonner Jr., Kevin A. Anderson, and Jimmonique R. S. Rodgers Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fredric D. Bright, District Attorney, Gray, Stephen A. Bradley, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Milledgeville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Brittany N. Jones, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0701

    The defendant fatally shot the victim after locating him and confronting him about the death of a dog in the victim's

  • Villanueva v. First Am. Title Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2013-03-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hugh C. Wood Wood & Meredith LLP, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Amicus Appellant: James R. Evans McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, and Robin F. Clark, Atlanta. Frederic S. Beloin and Charles W. Brown Beloin, Brown, Blum & Wise LLC, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus curiae: Kenneth L. Shigley Chambers, Aholt & Rickard LLP, Paula J. Frederick, General Counsel State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta, Patrick T. O'Connor, and Robert B. Lingle Oliver Maner LLP, Savannah.
    Case Number: S12G0484

    A legal malpractice claim for financial loss, involving solely the right of property, is assig

  • Stoddard v. Meyer

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Waters and Billy J. Waters Ballard Stephenson & Waters PC, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Marcy A. Hanks Foster & Hanks LLC, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1131

    The parties' equal parenting arrangement, which they adopted after their divorce, and which significantly differed from the terms of their divorce decree, constituted a substantial change in the chi

  • Gasses v. City of Riverdale

    Publication Date: 2010-10-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. King, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald J. Freeman Johnson & Freeman LLC, Union City, Deana L. Simon-Johnson and Joseph R. Buller III Insley & Race LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S10A1113

    A municipal ordinance requiring a citizen to maintain grass, weeds and vegetation for the community's welfare did not constitute constitutionally prohibited involuntary serv

  • Newman v. Patton

    Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Earnest H. Delong Jr. Delong, Caldwell & Bridges LLC, Atlanta, for appellee. Richard W. Schiffman Jr. and Rebecca L. Crumrine Davis, Matthews & Quigley PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S09F1718

    The trial court erred in relying on Virginia cases interpreting a Virginia statute to determine that stock options awarded to the wife prior to the couple's mar but which vested during the ma

  • Expedia Inc. v. City of Columbus

    Publication Date: 2009-06-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry A. Buchanan, Benjamin A. Land Buchanan & Land LLP, Columbus, Edward K. Smith and Robin A. Schmahl Jones Day, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William U. Norwood III, Michael L. McGlamry, Neal K. Pope, Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, Robert M. Travis, John R. Bielema Jr. Bryan Cave Powell Goldstein LLP, Atlanta, Charles N. Pope, Wade H. Tomlinson III and Paul Kilpatrick Jr. Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0567

    The trial court did not err in basing hotel occupancy taxes, which an on-line travel company owes to the city of Columbus, on the hotel rate it charges to its customers, rather than the lower wholes

  • Harper v. Harper

    Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Akin Akin & Tate LLC, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: C. King Askew and Ansel F. Beacham III, Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richarson & Davis, Rome, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A1097

    No evidence showed that the decedent either expressly or impliedly revoked his March 6 2001 will, which his widow filed for pr