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  • Nichols v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg Georgia Capital Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1181

    Trial counsel's tender of the defendant's truck driver's logs did not open the door to impeachment, since the logs, which the state tendered, related to a wholly different time p

  • Alexander v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ann M. Fitz the Federal Law Group, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Layla H. Zon, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0294

    The defendant was not entitled to a charge on the concept of , since it is not the jury's role to decide whether offenses

  • Thompson v. Allstate Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2009-02-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wilson R. Smith Smith & Jenkins PC, Vidalia, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Joseph H. Barrow Barrow & Ballew PC, Julie D. Culhane Culhane & Assocs., G. Mason White, James D. Kreyenbuhl Brennan, Harris & Rominger, Savannah, Frederick M. Valz III, Hugh M. Ruppersburg and Ambadas B. Joshi Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Darren W. Penn Harris, Penn & Lowry LLP, Atlanta, and Charles M. Cork III, Macon.
    Case Number: S08G1594; S08G1595

    Although the appellants had to exhaust liability coverage before pursuing UM claims for injuries sustained in the underlying accident, their release did not unambiguously show that the first appella

  • Rodriguez v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-01-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald B. Kleinrock, Corrine M. Mull, Daryl W. Queen, LeeAnne Anthony and Andrew R. Lynch Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Michael S. Carlson, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and John E. Floyd Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Gerald W. Weber Jr. and Melanie Velez Southern Ctr. for Human Rights, Atlanta. Amicus appellee: Lee W. O. Shafer Oxendine & Assocs., Duluth, Donald E. Henderson, Decatur, Wendell K. Willard Willard & Sullivan, Michael A. Caldwell Delong, Caldwell & Bridgers LLC, Atlanta, and William F. Riley Jr., Johns Creek.
    Case Number: S08A1928

    Georgia's Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act is not unconstitutionally vague or overbroad and does not directly or indirectly infringe upon the First Amendment right to freedom of associ

  • Rumley-Miawama v. Miawama

    Publication Date: 2009-01-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Emily S. Bair and George T. Davis Emily S. Bair & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08F1541

    The trial court's imposition of a limited visitation schedule in the event that the wife moves out of Georgia constituted a self-executing change of visitation in violation of Georgia's public polic

  • American Home Products Corp. v. Ferrari

    Publication Date: 2008-10-17
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    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S07G1708

    The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act of 1986 "Vaccine Act", 42 USC §300aa-1 et seq. did not pre-empt the plaintiffs' claims for alleged neurological damage to t

  • Brown v. Fokes Properties 2002 Inc.

    Publication Date: 2008-03-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S08A0289

    In the absence of the trial transcript the record presumably supported the trial court's findings regarding service of process on appe

  • Fulton County v. Galberaith

    Publication Date: 2007-07-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Overtis H. Brantley, Steven E. Rosenberg, Sudevi N. Ghosh and Valerie A. Ross Fulton County Attorneys, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David H. Flint, Mark W. Forsling Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Wendell K. Willard Willard & Sullivan, Dana K. Maine Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, and Laurel E. Henderson Henderson & Hundley PC, Decatur.
    Case Number: S07A0032

    Several sections of the Fulton county zoning ordinance are unconstitutionally broad for declaring that all outdoor signs are presumptively illegal throughout the county, to be exempted only on a cas

  • 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

  • Vaughn v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas P. Lenzer and Robert W. Lenzer Lenzer & Lenzer, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, William C. Akins, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0740

    The overwhelming authority demonstrates that mtDNA evidence is sufficiently reliable to be admis