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  • Reid v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1684

    The trial court did not reversibly err in giving a jury charge on witnesses, which stated that witnesses are presumed to speak the truth, because such a charge does not constitute reversible error

  • Larizza v. Larizza

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrea L. Landers and David A. Wester, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher T. Adams, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09F1836

    Although the appellee admitted that the appellant was not willingly unemployed, the Court assumed that the trial court resolved conflicting evidence properly in the absence of a trans

  • Arnold v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek M. Wright The Wright Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Mary K. Ware, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1382

    The defendant failed to meet the requirements for admitting the murder victim's 1979 robbery convi

  • Wesley v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: DuPont K. Cheney Jr. Cheney & Baskin LLC, Greensboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Stephany J. Luttrell, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1376

    The defendant approached the unarmed victim and fatally shot him in the

  • Dunn v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-12-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher G. Paul, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Sharon M. Fox, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1369

    O.C.G.A. § 42-1-12, which sets forth detailed information that sexual offenders must report, is not unconstitutionally

  • Lackey v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-11-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa L. Smith, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Melanie M. Bell, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sheila E. Gallow, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1215

    The evidence did not support the defendant's conviction for obstruction, since the defendant immediately complied when the pursuing officer ordered him to

  • Williams v. Hall

    Publication Date: 2009-11-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Attorney General, and Amy E. H. Morelli, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore Mercer Law School, Brian P. Adams Sell & Melton, LLP, Macon, and William A. Bonner III, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0973

    The habeas court erred in granting the defendant's petition based on an issue that he did not raise in his petition or at the he

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-11-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew B. Margolis 9Conaway, Strickler & Margolis PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Attorney General, Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1260

    The pretrial photo array and individual photos, which an eyewitness used to identify the defendant, were not impermissibly sugge

  • Everetteze v. Clark

    Publication Date: 2009-10-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent D. Hyman, Robert L. Martin, Carmen R. Alexander and Robert D. Ware County Attorneys' Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert J. Proctor and Christopher M. Porterfield Proctor Hutchins, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1354

    Although the county Board of Equalization members are public officers, subject to quo warranto, a quo warranto petition may only be filed by leave of court and the appellee did not seek leave of cou

  • Merritt v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy L. Eidson, Clinton L. Lott IV, Fitzgerald, and Stephen W. Czarnota, Cordele, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, Cheri L. Nichols, Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1088

    Evidence that the defendant shot the victim in the back of the head while he was sitting in his recliner in his home after a 20-year tumultuous relationship supported her murder convi