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  • Murphy v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S06A0069

    The trial court did not err in asking the jury to disregard a contemporaneous, but incorrect charge on mistake of

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sharon D. Smith-Knox, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0036

    The defendant chased down and fatally shot the victim over a $6 drug

  • Tavera v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia F. Angeli, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1763

    The trial court did not err in admitting an expert's opinion that he would not have expected the person who fired the murder weapon to have tested positive for gunshot re

  • Quillian v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1302

    The trial court did not err in excluding evidence of one victim's prior violent acts, since the defendant failed to establish a prima facie case of justific

  • Tiismann v. Linda Martin Homes Corp.

    Publication Date: 2005-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vaughn W. Fisher Jr. and Kimberly K. Perez Weizenecker, Mottern & Fisher PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael A. Kessler, Cumming, and Frank G. Goldman Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice PLLC.
    Case Number: S05G0001

    The plaintiff's claim against the defendant under the Fair Business Practices Act based on contractual language in the parties' new home sales contract did not accrue until the defendant conveyed hi

  • Hall v. Vargas

    Publication Date: 2005-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: McNeill Stokes, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1910

    O.C.G.A. § 24-3-16 can be retroactively applied to acts of child molestation that allegedly occurred prior to its enactment, since allowing outcry statements made by a child under the age of 14 unde

  • Turpin v. Curtis

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Page A. Pate, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1517

    The defendant must show how he was actually prejudiced from his trial counsel's failure to inform him of his right not to te

  • Atlanta Humane Society v. Harkins

    Publication Date: 2004-10-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward L. Greenblatt, James V. Zito and Janet L. Bozeman Lipshutz, Greenblatt & King, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Hollie G. Manheimer Stuckey & Manheimer, Decatur, Alan I Begner, Katie K. Wood Begner & Begner PC and Gerald R. Weber, Atlanta, for Harkins & Mills. Amicus Appellant: George L. Howell Howell & Assocs. LLC, Atlanta, Gary M. Newberry, Savannah, William A. Mudd Saddler Sullivan PC, Birmingham, Ala., and James Stark, Englewood, Colo. Amicus Appellee: Douglas P. Haines, Athens, Justine I. Thompson, Craig L. Goodmark, Atlanta, Mary M. Oliver Joyner & Burnette PC, Decatur, and Dion A. Sullivan, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S04G0613; S04G0684, S04G0685

    The fourth sentence of the anti-SLAPP statute, O.C.G.A. § 9-11-11.1 b, allows a trial court to dismiss the claim if the trial court makes a substantive, evidentiary determination that the claim is

  • Quarterman v. Douglas County Bd. of Comm'rs

    Publication Date: 2004-09-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Quarterman, Douglasville, proceeded pro se. Joseph H. Fowler Hartley, Rowe & Fowler and Julie K. Livingston, Douglasville, for appellees.
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    Case Number: S04A1339

    The pro se appellant could not collaterally attack the final judgment in a revenue bond validation proce

  • Hames v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Millsaps, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Raina Nadler, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0489

    The defendant shot and killed his brother after mistaking him for a crouching a