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  • Boykins v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-11-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, Woodbine, for appellant.
    for defendant: D. Victor Reynolds, District Attorney, Grady A. Moore, John R. Edwards, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and David A. Zisook, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1148

    The defendant failed to show that his counsel was deficient for strategically deciding to rely on an alibi, rather than on a mental health de

  • Pitchford v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-11-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sheueli C. Wang Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, 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: S13A0884

    The defendant brought himself to the attention of officers by voluntarily approaching the murder scene and inquiring about what happened, mentioning that he had recently had a run-in with the victim

  • Bester v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy W. Copeland Copeland & Haugabrook, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard L. Perryman III, District Attorney, Nashville, Robert A. Rogers, Assistant District Attorney, Adel, 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: S13A1192

    Defendant's conviction for aggravated assault should have merged into his malice murder conviction, since no evidence showed that the victim suffered a non-fatal injury followed by a deliberate inte

  • Morris v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-11-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen R. Scarborough, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Lenny I. Krick, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1020

    The evidence supported the defendant's conviction for a gang-related m

  • Spectera Inc. v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2013-11-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Bowers, Malissa A. Kaufold-Wiggins Balch & Bingham LLP, Atlanta, Cavender C. Kimble Balch & Bingham LLP, Birmingham, Ala., Wade P. K. Carr, Bruce E. Baty Dentons US LLP, Kansas City, Mo., and Eric J. Andalman Dentons US LLP, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter G. Elliott II Elliott, Blackburn & Gooding PC, Valdosta, for appellees. Amicus Appellee: Aubrey T. Villines Jr. and Jeffrey R. Filipovits Filipovits Law Firm PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S12G1935

    The Court of Appeals erred in defining the phrases "any class of providers" and "classes of eye care providers" too broadly, inasmuch as it relied on the general dictionary definition of the word "

  • Bates v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Arthur C. Walton, Assistant District Attorney 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: S13A1095

    The defendant lost his temper and stabbed his next-door neighbor to death with a knife after she refused to lend him money, and he then took approximately $600 from her w

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank H. Childs Jr., County Attorney, Craig M. Childs, and William H. Noland Childs & Noland, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Otis L. Scarbary, Rebecca H. L. Grist, Solicitors General, Macon, and Cynthia T. Adams, Assistant District Attorney, Fort Valley, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13G0178

    The trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of his stop at a vehicle checkpoint, as the State failed to prove that the county sheriff office's r

  • Rutter v. Rutter

    Publication Date: 2013-10-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam M. Hames The Hames Law Firm LLC, Atlanta, Jennifer S. Gill, and Roger M. Johnson Bray & Johnson, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Vic B. Hill, Brad E. MacDonald Hill-MacDonald LLC, Robert K. Abbott Jr., and Parri S. Abbott Abbott & Abbott, Marietta, for appellee. Amicus Appellee: Wayne R. Allen Office of Legislative Counsel, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S12G1915

    Senate Bill 316 Ga. L. 2000, p. 875, § 2 eliminated the curtilage exception set forth in O.C.G.A. § 16-11-6

  • Hasty v. Castleberry

    Publication Date: 2013-10-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy E. Barnes, Allison B. Salter, and James C. Tribble The Barnes Law Group LLC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laura K. Bonander and Wade H. Watson III Caldwell & Watson LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0989; S13A1189; S13A1190

    The appellant did not breach his fiduciary duty as trustee for the parties' parents' respective estates by serving as the co-chair of a university's capital campaign committee and donating $1M from

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-09-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sheueli C. Wang Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Arthur C. Walton, Assistant District Attorney, 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: S13A0979

    The defendant did not show that his counsel was ineffective in failing to object to the State's cross-examination of a defense character witness regarding his knowledge of the defendant's arrest rec