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  • Langlands v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Staples Jr., Cornelia, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarksville, and Richard K. Bridgeman, Assistant District Attorney, Toccoa, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0785

    State v. Langlands, 276 Ga. 721 2003 is overruled to the extent that it holds that trial counsel's deficient performance in failing to file a demurrer based on a mistaken allegation that firearms of

  • Mungin v. St. Lawrence

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Mungin, Savannah, proceeded pro se. R. Jonathan Hart and Emily E. Garrard, Savannah, for appellees.
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    Case Number: S07A0193

    The state's alleged failure to comply with the defendant's statutory speedy trial demand did not constitute an exception to the rule that a defendant cannot predicate pretrial habeas relied upon a c

  • Richards v. Richards

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph R. Manning, Robert C. Threlkeld and Leslie A. Allen Morris, Manning & Martin LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Floyd E. Propst III Caldwell & Watson LLP0, John C. Mayoue Warner, Mayoue, Bates & Nolen PC, L. Lamar Mixson, Lisa R. Strauss Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP and Susan A. Chiapetta, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A1269

    The plaintiff lacked standing to pursue an individual claim for removal of the trustee of the inter vivos trust, which her ex-husband established for their children's benefit, since the plaintiff wa

  • McGahee v. Rogers

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen W. Bodiford and Martin C. Jones, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: David S. Walker Jr., Snellville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0885

    The trial court erred in ruling that certain debts the husband was required to assume pursuant to his property settlement agreement with wife were not dischargeable in husband's bankruptcy action, s

  • Ladzinske v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. M. Raffaur, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott W. Peters, Nathan M. Wheat, David H. Flint Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Atlanta, Eugene C. Reed Jr., William J. Linkous III and Viviane H. Ernstes DeKalb County Law Dept., Decatur, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A1866

    Plaintiff could not directly appeal the dismissal of his suit arising after the county department of public works declared a charter school to be exempt from local ordinances and granted all necessa

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Goad, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Cartersville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0154

    The circumstantial evidence was sufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis other than the defendant's

  • Rayburn v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Moulton Moulton & Tarrer LLC, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: R. Phillip Shinall III Alexander, Royston, Hardman & Shinall, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A2094

    The decedent's will clearly provided that his wife and son would share the expenses of maintaining the couple's home until it was sold, as long as both the wife and son resided there; however, the w

  • Falkenberry v. Taylor

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William E. Cetti, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven M. Reilly, Byron M. G. Sanford, Lawrenceville, Charles G. Shrake, Roswell, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Mark J. Cicero, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S04A1988

    The Child Support Recovery Act, O.C.G.A. § 19-11-1 et seq., as amended in 2003, no longer distinguishes between the procedure available for children who receive public assistance and those who d

  • Wilson v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jan V. Hinson, Alice A. Blanco, Duluth, and Robert L. Jones, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David A. Webster, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04F0234

    Georgia courts take an intermediate approach to the question of whether parties in a civil action have an absolute right to closing arg

  • Blaylock v. Blaylock

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Mayoue, Paul J. Coburn and Hope C. Allen Warner, Mayoue, Bates, Nolen & Collar PC, Tl, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank W. Virgin Slaughter & Virgin PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0824

    Under O.C.G.A. § 19-5-1, the wife had a substantive right to a jury trial, where the husband raised an issuable defense to her comp