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  • Turner v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James A. Elkins Jr., Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Mark C. Post, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0679

    Evidence that defendant shot her husband in the back after telling her friend that she could not take his abuse any longer supported her convi

  • Carthern v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Morrison and Paul S. Liston Jones, Morrison, Womack & Dearing PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Fayetteville, and Randall K. Coggin, Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99G1519

    The defendant recklessly endangered a human life within the meaning of O.C.G.A. § 16-7-22 a when he fired a gun at night into an inhabited home where residents were likely to be pr

  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel L. Henderson, Marietta, and Jonathan R. Melnick Jonathan R. Melnick PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Frank R. Cox, Maria B. Golick, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0412

    Defendant did not clearly and unambiguously request counsel during his custodial interrogation when he said he wanted to talk to someone about who his attorney wou

  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hurl R. Taylor Jr., Ellenwood, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard, District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Peggy A. Katz, Anne E. Green, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0136

    Defendant's attorney was not ineffective just because he failed to submit written requests to charge, since he participated in the charge conference and orally requested ch

  • Carter v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathy S. Palmer, Swainsboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, William S. Askew, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1603

    Although the trial court should have charged on impeachment by conviction since a state witness admitted to his prior felony convictions without objection, that error was harmless given the other e