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  • Wyatt v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John P. Howell, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan A. Cook, District Attorney, William K. Wynne Jr., Covington, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wesley S. Wood, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0842

    Defendant's custodial statement was admissible because he initiated communication with the interrogating officers after they stopped questioning him in response to his statement that he would wait f

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kirk E. Gilliard Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wesley S. Wood, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0037

    The state could ask the defendant if he had "Thug Life" tattooed on his abdomen, since that evidence was relevant to the defendant's possible motive for committing a drive-by sho

  • Ely v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Wyatt, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, Rome, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0507

    The trial 's error in allowing the state to impeach three defense witnesses with inadmissible prior convictions was harmless, given the defendant's failure to renew his objection after the tria

  • Torres v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barbara J. Nelson, Claxton, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Durden Jr., District Attorney, Hinesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wesley S. Wood, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0338

    Although the defendant's expert testified that the 1990 census failed to reflect changes in the county's minority populations, there was no evidence that minorities were substantially under-represe

  • Benford v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shalini A. Patel and Viveca B. Famber Fulton County Public Defender's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, George W.K. Snyder Jr., Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0212

    Evidence that the defendant was arrested with a gun other than the murder weapon was irrelevant and would have been prejudicial, but for the overwhelming evidence of his

  • Cardio TVP Surgical Assocs. PC v. Gillis

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Edwards and Blair K. Cleveland Martin, Snow, Grant & Napier, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Berrien L. Sutton Sutton & Assocs. PC, Homerville, Keith H. Solomon, Douglas, Ronald W. Hallman, Claxton, Mitchel P. House Jr. Sell & Melton, Macon, and Kenneth G. Menendez Vincent, Berg, Stalzer & Menendez, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellants: Sidney N. Summers Vincent, Berg, Stalzer & Menendez, and David C. Cook Medical Assoc. of Ga., Atlanta.
    Case Number: S99G1712

    Whether it was appropriate for the physician's assistant to harvest the plaintiff's vein was not a jury question, since the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners is the only entity who can make

  • Shields v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph A. Homans Fox, Chandler, Homans, Hicks & McKinnon, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, Margaret Schnee-Gregory, Deputy District Attorney, Gainesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1774

    Since there was no evidence that the defendant and the victim struggled or otherwise indicated that defendant shot herself in self-defense, evidence of the victim's prior violent acts was inadmis

  • Robinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jana M. Whaley, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0029

    Since state crime lab expert could not say what effect cocaine had on the murder victim, his testimony that the victim consumed cocaine and a detective's testimony that the victim had cocaine in his

  • Massey v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ben B. Mills Jr. Mills & Chasteen PC, Fitzgerald, for appellant.
    for defendant: John C. Pridgen, District Attorney, Cordele, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1450

    Evidence that defendant's wife confronted him and his girlfriend at a motel three weeks before the wife's murder was admissible to show defendant's motive for killin