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  • Collins v. Winter

    Publication Date: 2003-07-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wendell K. Willard, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Joseph H. Fowler Hartley, Rowe & Fowler, Douglasville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S03A0393

    No evidence supported the trial court's judgment directing the return of certain, undescribed tools in the beneficiaries' suit for breach of a

  • City of Atlanta v. Lane

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Rosalind R. Newell, Karen E. Woodward and Kristen E. Brooks, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William J. McKenney McKenney & Froelich, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1805

    A former police officer was entitled to reinstatement as a city employee and entitled to back compensation since the city did not appeal the Civil Service Board's decision reversing the defendant's

  • Stockford v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-02-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    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, Madonna M. Heinemeyer and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1673

    The trial court's error in charging that the jury could infer intent to kill from the use of a deadly weapon was harmless, given the overwhelming evidence of defendant's m

  • Provident Life and Accident Ins. Co. v. Hallum

    Publication Date: 2003-02-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Sanders Carter Jr. and Andrea K. Cataland Carter & Ansley, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glenn S. Bass and Ramsey Kazem Goldner, Sommers, Scrudder & Bass, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02Q1307

    Plaintiff's disability insurance policy covered his carpel tunnel syndrome resulting from 30 years of OBGYN work as an injury, rather than a sickness or di

  • In re J. M.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Catherine B. Sanderson Cook, Lundy & Sanderson PA, Peachtree City, Gerald R. Weber Jr., Robert L. Tsai and Elizabeth L. Littrell American Civil Liberties Union, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, James E. Sherrill and Jamie K. Inagawa, Assistant District Attorneys, Fayetteville, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Julie M. Carpenter Jenner & Block LLC, Washington D.C.
    Case Number: S02A1432

    A 16-year-old juvenile had a constitutionally protected privacy interest in having consensual sex with his 16-year-old girlfriend in the bedroom of her parents'

  • Terrell v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Alan A. Cook, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paige R. Whitaker, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02P0643

    Recent United States Supreme Court case law did not require the state to allege statutory aggravating circumstances in the defendant's indictment or have a grand jury consider statutory aggrav

  • Lindsey v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-02-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Jones and Matthew Ciccarelli King & King & Jones PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1643

    The defendant could not show that he was harmed by the trial court's refusal to excuse a juror who was acquainted with the victim's mother since the juror was subsequently excused for har

  • Fort v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey W. Cofer, Jonesboro, for Fort. Patricia F. Angeli, Jonesboro, for Peck. Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, Erman J. Tanjuatco, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General,, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S01A1268; S01A1269

    The record failed to support defendant's contention that a detective improperly placed his bad character into evidence by referencing a mu

  • Mikell v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce S. Harvey and David S. West, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Thomas S. Clegg, Jeanne M. Canavan, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, , Mary B. Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0690

    Evidence of defendant's extramarital relationship was admissible to refute his testimony that he had a good relationship with his

  • Mancill v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven E. Phillips, 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, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0658

    The trial court properly admitted the 4-year-old witness's videotaped interviews which were consistent with her trial testimony to rebut defendant's contention that relatives and others attempted to