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Hamm v. State

Publication Date: 2014-03-20
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie R. Lowry, Public Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Frances C. Kuo, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Michael D. Thurston, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine T. Parvis, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S13A1696

Hall v. State, 241 Ga. App. 252 1978 and its progeny, overruled, to the extent that those cases held that it is not error for a trial court to refuse to give a requested instruction on accomplice co

Wright v. State

Publication Date: 2014-03-20
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh B. Merchant The Merchant Law Firm PC, Marietta, for appellant.
for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Deborah D. Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ryan A. Kolb, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S13A1786

Two eyewitnesses identified the defendant as the gunman who drove up in a car brandishing an AK-14, demanded to know where the victim was, and then fatally sho

Walker v. State

Publication Date: 2014-03-13
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hines, P. Harris
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
for defendant: Margaret E. Heap, District Attorney, Isabel M. Pauley, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine L. Iannuzzi, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S13A1910

The defendant did not prove his ineffective assistance of counsel claims based on several alleged deficiencies, including counsel's failure to object when the State posed a hypothetical question to

Rollins v. Rollins

Publication Date: 2014-03-06
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John J. Dalton, James A. Lamberth, Alan W. Bakowski Troutman Sanders LLP, Lynette E. Smith Chick-fil-A Inc., Sidney L. Moore III, and Katie L. Balthrop Summerville Moore PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: . H. Lamar Mixson, Timothy S. Rigsbee, and Lisa R. Strauss Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Ean K. Cullefer Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta. Amicus Curiae: Robert B. Remar Rogers & Hardin LLP, John K. Larkins III Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever LLP, James W. Cobb Caplan Cobb LLP, Atlanta, and Paul W. Painter Jr. Ellis, Painter, Ratterree & Adams LLP, Savannah.
Case Number: S13G1162

The Court of Appeals failed to give due deference to the trial court's discretion to require or excuse an accounting of the corporate family entities held within irrevocable t

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Hassel v. State

Publication Date: 2014-02-27
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jana W. Jacobson Public Defender's Office, Royston, for appellant.
for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, Brian V. Patterson, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Athens, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S13A1382

Although the evidence was unclear as to whether the defendant was the actual triggerman in a fatal shooting, ample evidence showed that he was a party to the crimes surrounding the murder, which was

Hanes v. State

Publication Date: 2014-02-27
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Melton, Harold D.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David D. Marshall, Marietta, for appellant.
for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Zina B. Gumbs, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Rochelle W. Gordon, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S13A1428

The defendant fatally shot one victim in the chest at close range and shot the other victim in the arm as that victim ran

Griffin v. State

Publication Date: 2013-12-19
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica R. Towne Clark & Towne PC, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Robby A. King, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and David A. Bikoff, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S13A0967

A showing of a simple buy-sell drug transaction, without more, does not support a conviction for consp

Allaben v. State

Publication Date: 2013-12-19
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Deborah D. Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S13A0949

The defendant's convictions for malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault with intent to murder and simple battery were mutually exclusive of his conviction for reckless co

Brown v. Parody

Publication Date: 2013-11-27
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Melton, Harold D.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Daniel W. Hamilton Shepard, Plunkett, Hamilton & Boudreaux LLP, Augusta, for appellant.
for defendant: Timothy Parody, Grovetown, proceeded pro se. Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore Mercer Law School, Macon, and J. Scott Key, Decatur.
Case Number: S13A0899

A divided Supreme Court held that the habeas court erred in ruling that the undisputed facts showed that plea counsel was deficient with regard to consideration of the defendant's compe