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  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-06-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark J. Nathan, Assistant Public Defender, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry Chisolm, District Attorney, Ann M. Elmore, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine R. Thrower, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0853

    Slight differences in the size, shading or clarity of photographs used in an identification line-up do not render a line-up impermissibly sugge

  • Howard v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-03-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alixe E. Steinmetz Public Defender's Office and Kenneth D. Kondritzer, Atlanta, for Howard. Dwight L. Thomas, Atlanta, for Ross. Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Stephany J. Luttrell, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S10A2028; S11A0026

    The aggravated assault victims' testimony that they ran from gunfire was sufficient evidence that defendants placed them in reasonable apprehension of immediately receiving violent i

  • Morris v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Mason, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Ryan R. Leonard, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0169

    Defense counsel's failure to object to an officer's cumulative and immaterial hearsay testimony was har

  • Dempsey v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell D. Durham, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amy H. McChesney, Herman M. Kilgore, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0931

    The defendant's sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for murder was illegal under the recidivist statute, O.C.G.A. § 17-1

  • White v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-10-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bernadette C. Crucilla, Macon, for appellee. Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Gregory W. Winters, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Andrette Watson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S04A1394

    Defendant's convi for the underlying offense of attempted armed robbery merged with his felony murder convi

  • Roberts v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-03-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James J. Lacy, Brunswick, 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 Kyle A. Pearson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1807

    A juror's bias, experience with false accusations and belief that the judicial system is unfair may be grounds to excuse the juror for

  • Braley v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tamara Jacobs Lindsey & Jacobs, Barnesville, and William A. Adams Jr., Thomaston, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Fayetteville, Daniel A. Hyatt, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Romin V. Alavi, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02P1191

    The prosecutor's closing argument asking the jury to imagine what the victim felt like did not require reversal since there was no reasonable probability that the improper argument influenced the ju

  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randolph G. Rich Rich & Smith, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Phil Wiley, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Niria D. Baggett, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1236

    Defendant used a knife to stab the victim multiple

  • Kelly v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Garrett Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and W. Swain Wood Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0746

    The defendant who participated in three unsuccessful attempts to kill the victim did not abandon his active participation in the murder plot before the murder was comm