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  • Richardson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary P. Bunch, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02G1698

    Application of Georgia's rape-shield statute to evidence about the victim's non-sexual relationship with her ex-boyfriend violated the defendant's confrontation

  • McCutchen v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cathy M. Alterman Alterman & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, for appellee. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Timothy B. Lumpkin, Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jill M. Zubler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S03A0272

    Defense counsel's decision not to consider the exculpatory testimony of a co-indictee with a prior murder conviction was strategic since the co-indictee had nothing to lose by trying to exculpate hi

  • State v. Lejeune

    Publication Date: 2003-02-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, and Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Atlanta, for the state. Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, and August F. Siemon III, Atlanta, for Lejeune.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S02A1277; S02A1346; S02A1349

    Police lacked probable cause to search defendant's vehicle that was legally parked in defendant's residential parking space when defendant and his girlfriend were arrested for suspected m

  • Department of Human Resources v. Allison

    Publication Date: 2003-01-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Atlanta, Anita D. Trotter, Assistant District Attorney, Clarkesville, and Katherine S. Davis, Catonsville, Md., for appellant.
    for defendant: M. Steven Campbell and James N. Butterworth, Cornelia, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1446

    The Department of Human Resources had no authority to file an action for the downward modification of a parent's child support obligation absent a showing that the child was already subject to an en

  • Givens v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael G. Schiavone and Steven L. Sparger Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Jon Hope, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General,, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0509

    The witness's testimony that defendant promised to give him insurance money for killing the victim satisfied the nexus requirement for admission of evidence of a life insurance p

  • McGinn v. McGinn

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew R. Pachman Lawler & Tanner PC and Jean M. Kutner Kutner & Bloom, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alvah O. Smith, Hope C. B. Allen Warner, Mayoue & Bates PC, Atlanta, and Hylton B. Dupree Jr. Dupree, Johnson, Poole & King, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1424

    Wife is entitled to discover the value and reasonable earnings potential of her husband's family-owned stock which is held in a company trust because the husband's interest in the trust is relevant

  • Garden Hills Civic Assoc. Inc. v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth.

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard N. Hubert Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin and Mary C. Cooney, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David D. Blum City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Carl E. Westmoreland Jr. Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP, Charles N. Pursley Jr., Christian F. Torgrimson Pursley, Howell, Lowery & Meeks LLC, Atlanta, and Thomas A. Bowman Maddox, Nix, Bowman & Zoeckler, Conyers, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Matthew D. Gansereit Allen, Kopet & Boyd PLLC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S01A0069

    Civic association's motion for an interlocutory injunction to prevent MARTA from implementing a land development agreement is d

  • Heidler v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Garrett Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, Kathy S. Palmer, Swainsboro, Michael Mears, MultiCounty Public Defender, and Alice C. Stewart, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, William S. Askew, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Alison B. Vrolijk, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Joseph L. Chambers Sr. Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Ga., Smyrna, and Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Center, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S00P0808

    The defendant was not harmed by the trial court's erroneous charge that a defendant will not receive a death sentence if he is found guilty but mentally ret

  • Allen v. Dominy

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Arthur L. Phillips Phillips & Phillips, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter J. Lane Jr., Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0215

    When the defendant deeded the decedent's property to herself in fee simple, she breached her duty as the decedent's agent to obtain a deed which would protect and provide for the decedent's

  • Cotton v. Cotton

    Publication Date: 2000-03-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard W. Schiffman Jr. and Kurt A. Kegel Davis, Matthews & Quigley PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth I. M. Behrman and Kenneth H. Schatten, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1679

    Trial court should have admitted the parties' original divorce decree which set out the husband's alimony obligation since it established the judgment he was seeking to m