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  • Patel v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-10-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul S. Liston, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Randall K. Coggin, Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, and Cindy L. Spindler, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0889

    The defendant was entitled to a mistrial, after the trial court improperly expressed its opinion during defense counsel's opening that the state had established venue in Fayette c

  • Grayer v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam M. Hames The Hames Law Firm LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0450

    Conviction and sentence for cruelty to children reversed as the trial court erred in failing to merge that conviction into the defendant's felony murder conviction for the death of an extremely prem

  • Vereen v. Deutsche Bank Nat'l Trust Co.

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jamie A. Scaringi-Cherry Deming, Parker, Hoffman, Green & Campbell, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: John E. Robinson McLarty, Robinson & Van Voorhies LLP, William J. Linkous III, Terri Gordon DeKalb County Law Dep't, Decatur, and Monica K. Gilroy McCalla Raymer LLC, Roswell, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0519

    The trial court did not err in finding that fee simple title to the disputed property was vested in the appellee, since the bankruptcy court's annulment of an automatic stay and filing of a deed und

  • Glenn v. State;

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gilbert J. Murrah, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee. Amicus appellee: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sidney R. Barrett Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S07A0079; S07A0080

    O.C.G.A. § 16-17-2-prohibiting making of payday loans-is constitut

  • Stokes v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, Atlantic Beach, Fla., for Stokes. Robert L. Crowe, Brunswick, for Hobdy. Joseph E. East, Kingsland, for Tinsley. Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Charles K. Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S07A0163; S07A0164; S07A0165

    The defendants rode around in the first defendant's SUV and participated in a drive-by shooting, killing one victim, hitting the second victim under the eye and striking the third victim twice in th

  • Height v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Garrett Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ralph M. Walke, District Attorney, Peter F. Larsen, Assistant District Attorney, Dublin, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Laura D. Dyes, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A2107

    A witness's passing reference to a couple of potential cases against the defendant did not put his character in evi

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, James C. Bonner Jr., Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore and Leigh S. Schrope Georgia Pub. Defender Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, and Charles M. Stines, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05G1554

    The Court of Appeals erred in failing to dismiss the defendant's untimely appeal of the denial of his amended motion for a new

  • Chatman v. Mancill

    Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Pereira Thompson & Sweeny PC, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1862

    The rationale behind the opinion in Ryan v. Thomas, 261 Ga. 661 1991-that one member of the public defender's office could not reasonably be expected to assert or argue the ineffective assistance of

  • Howerton v. Danenberg

    Publication Date: 2005-11-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John C. Bell Jr. Bell & James, Augusta, Robert W. Cullen, Atlanta, and Robert L. McGlasson, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1335

    Defense counsel's concurrent representation of the defendant in a death penalty case and of the district attorney in a federal case involving the use of preemptory strikes to remove minorities from

  • Winner v. Crisp County

    Publication Date: 2005-10-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan I. Begner, Cory G. Begner Begner & Begner PC, Katherine K. Wood, Atlanta, and H. Louis Sirkin Sirkin, Pinales & Schwartz LLP, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Peter R. Olson and Brandon L. Bowen Jenkins & Olson PC, Cartersville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A1048; S05A1049

    The appellants could not be held in contempt for violating an invalid injunction prohibiting them from operating an adult-themed bus