Filter This View

  • Acevedo v. Kim f/k/a Acevedo

    Publication Date: 2008-11-14
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S08A0798

    Weaver v. Jones, 260 Ga. 493 1990 decided the question of whether father's petition seeking a declaratory judgment as to his obligation for past child support stated a claim for r

  • Magistrate Court of DeKalb County v. Fleming

    Publication Date: 2008-11-07
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S08A1060

    The trial court erred in considering the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's petition for mandamus and prohibition challenging the DeKalb County Magi Court and selected mag

  • Magistrate Court of DeKalb County v. Fleming

    Publication Date: 2008-10-03
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S08A1060

    The trial court erred in considering the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's petition for mandamus and prohibition challenging the DeKalb County Magi Court and selected mag

  • Humphrey v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2007-11-09
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, And Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for Humphrey, Warden in S07A1481. Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, and Franklin J. Hogue Hogue & Hogue, Macon, for Wilson. James D. McDade, District Attorney, Douglasville, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for the State in S07A1606. Amicus appellee: David Balser McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, and Cleve L. Molette, East Point.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S07A1481; S07A1606

    The defendant's 10-year sentence without possibility of parole for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old when defendant was 17 constituted cruel and unusual punis

  • In re Lewis IV

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and Jenny K. Mittelman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. John M. B. Lewis IV, Augusta. Gregory L. Fullerton, Chairperson Review Panel, Albany. Richard M. McNeely, Swainsboro.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S07Y1662

    An attorney, who was already on suspension as a special condition of his first-offender guilty plea to cocaine possession, was suspended for a minimum additional 24 m

  • Patel v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-10-05
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    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
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    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
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    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
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    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
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    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.
    for defendant:
    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