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  • Rose v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-06-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Mack Jr. Mack & Harris PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G Lawson, District Attorney, Billy J. Dixon, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Mary K. Ware, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0248

    The defendant fatally stabbed his estranged wife, while the couple's 9-year-old daughter was in an adjacent

  • Hood v. Todd

    Publication Date: 2010-05-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade H. Watson III, Laura K. Bonander Caldwell & Watson LLP, Atlanta, Samuel L. Oliver and Thomas D. Calkins Hulsey Oliver & Mahar LLP, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . J. Vincent Cook, Robert C. Irwin III and Jay W. Cook Cook, Noell, Tolley & Bates LLP, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0131

    The decedent's will clearly reflected his intent to exclude the appellee, since the appellee was not mentioned in the will and the term defining children was limited to lawful blood descen

  • Johnson v. Roberts

    Publication Date: 2010-04-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stuart E. Walker Martin Snow LLP and Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore Mercer Law School, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0063

    The habeas court erred in determining that the defendant was not prejudiced by his attorney's deficient performance in misinforming him on his parole eligibility, since the trial court's alleged cor

  • Manley v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-04-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for state.
    Case Number: S10A0136, S10A0137

    The trial court erred in failing to suppress defendant's statement to police after being arrested, because he unambiguously requested a lawyer and all questioning should have stopped immedi

  • Hicks v. Heard

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven K. Leibel, Dahlonega, for appellant.
    for defendant: Render C. Freeman, Michael J. Blakely Jr. Andersen Tate & Carr PC, Duluth, and Jeffrey P. Yashinsky Schur, McDuffie & Morgan, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09G1508

    In iff's vicarious liability action, the burden-shifting paradigm in Allen Kane's Major Dodge v. Barnes, 243 Ga. 776 1979, supported the grant of summary judgment to the defendant, because the

  • Atlanta Oculoplastic Surgery PC v. Nestlehutt

    Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan C. Peters, Melissa B. Johnson Peters & Monyak LLP, Thomas S. Carlock and Eric J. Frisch Carlock Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael B. Terry, Sarah M. Shalf Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, James D. Summerville The Bird Law Group PC, Frank A. Ilardi Houck, Ilardi & Regas LLC and Rosser A. Malone, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09A1432

    The damage cap in O.C.G.A. § 51-13-1 unconstitutionally infringed upon the right to a jury trial, because it undermined the jury's basic function as factfinder by nullifying any portion of a jury's

  • Roberts v. Cooper

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. King Jr., Dublin, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Attorney General, Atlanta, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore Mercer Law School and Stuart E. Walker Martin Snow LLP, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1512

    The mailbox rule, stated in Massaline v. Williams, 274 Ga. 552 2001, is to be applied only in the circumstances presented therein, i.e., the attempted appeal of a pro se habeas petitioner operating

  • Gliemmo v. Cousineau

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Traci G. Courville, Samuel W. Oates Jr. Oates & Courville, Columbus, Michael B. Terry, Nicole G. Iannarone and Kamal Ghali Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Roger S. Sumrall Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Ashley E. Sexton and Wade K. Copeland Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLPAtlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09A1807

    O.C.G.A. § 51-1-29.5 c, which limits the liability of physicians and health care providers for treatment immediately following evaluation or treatment of a patient in an emergency department, is a

  • Manley v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, appellants. Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S10A0136, S10A0137

    In some cases, defendants may present an objective and significant disparity in parol eligibility on cross-examination of a state's wi

  • Darroch v. Willis

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry B. McGough and Elinor H. Hitt Warner, Mayoue, Bates & McGough, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William R. Lester Fryer, Shuster & Lester PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1623

    The trial court impermissibly modified the parties' divorce decree by requiring the appellant to sell the marital residence after he failed to remove his ex-wife's name from the mortgage within 30