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  • Haugen v. Henry County

    Publication Date: 2004-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James L. Haugen, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael A. O'Quinn and Donald A. Cronin Jr. O'Quinn & Cronin, McDonough, for appellees.
    Case Number: S03A1444

    Where the actual cost exceeds the estimated cost of any unfinished pr SPLOST revenue collected in excess of the estimated cost may be used to complete that pr

  • Walker v. Houston

    Publication Date: 2003-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Madonna M. Heinemeyer and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Freddie Houston, Oglethorpe, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: S03A1392

    The defendant did not show that he was prejudiced by his counsel's failure to make a meritless objection object to the introduction of evidence that defendant committed a similar robbery in Fl

  • Roebuck v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Frier, 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 Jr., Attorney General, and Jill M. Zubler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0860

    An expert's reliance on hearsay affects the weight, not the admissibility of the expert's op

  • Sparks v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Millsaps, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Alan A. Cook, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jill M. Zubler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0989

    Defendant who denied being present when the victim was killed was not entitled to a sua sponte charge on voluntary manslau

  • Haley v. Regions Bank

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard R. Cheatham, Stephen E. Hudson and Burleigh L. Singleton Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David G. Ross, Nicole J. Wade, William J. Linkous Jr. Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, Robert K. Raulerson Perry & Walters LLP, Albany, and Charles C. Clay Brock, Clay, Calhoun, Wilson & Rogers PC, Marietta, for appellee. Other Party Representation: James E. Reynolds Jr. Perry & Walters LLP, Albany.
    Case Number: S03A1059

    The law in effect at the time of the testator's death extended full inheritance rights to adopted children, unless expressly excluded, and the testator's use of the term "lineal descendents" in his

  • Northwest Social and Civic Club Inc. v. Franklin

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan I. Begner, Robert M. Adelson and Cory G. Begner Begner & Begner PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, R. Roger Bhandari and Kendric E. Smith, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A1037

    Appellant could not obtain a second review of its claims through a direct appeal after the Supreme Court denied its application for discretionary review on the m

  • Lowe v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry R. Pruden, Loganville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Alan A. Cook, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Jeffrey L. Foster, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0511

    The defendant was not entitled to a grant of her motion in arrest of judgment where she could not admit the facts alleged in her felony murder indictment and still be inn

  • Wright v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-03-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maria Murcier-Ashley, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith and Ruth M. Pawlak, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1890

    The defendant fatally shot the unarmed victim as the victim fled behind his grandfather's

  • Doctor v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Covington, and Anthony S. Carter, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1121

    Defendant's guilty plea to theft by taking did not bar his subsequent trial on the greater offense of robbery by force where both offenses were prosecuted under a single indic

  • Taylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-09-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen P. Harrison Harrison & Harrison, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, Thomas R. McBerry, Chief Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1037

    The defendant committed aggravated assault by shooting the victim with a gun and committing armed robbery by showing the gun and demanding