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  • Moseley v. Sentence Review Panel

    Publication Date: 2006-07-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Brown Moseley Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce M. Edenfield, Susan L. Rutherford Gray, Hedrick & Edenfield LLP, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Christopher S. Brasher, Nicholas G. Dumich, Marla-Deen Brooks, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Charles C. Olson Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Ga., Atlanta.
    Case Number: S06A0035

    The former District Attorney for the Southern Georgia Judicial Circuit had standing in his former official capacity as state's counsel in all criminal matters pending in the circuit to challenge O.C

  • Dukes v. Board of Trustees for the Police Officers Pension Fund

    Publication Date: 2006-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: T. Joshua Archer, Michael J. Bowers and David G. Michell Balch & Bingham LLP, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Pamela F. Everett, Debra G. Alford and Robert N. Godfrey City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A0155

    Because the pension fund board did not have the legal authority to disburse retirement benefits based on prior service, the plaintiff cannot avail himself of the doctrine of estoppel in seeking to c

  • 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

  • Service Employees Int'l Union v. Perdue

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael E. Kramer Kramer & Patel LLC, John R. Myer, Atlanta, and Carol R. Golubock, Washington DC, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Bryan K. Webb and Kathleen T. Gosden, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A1634

    The amendments to O.C.G.A. § 45-20-2 15-defining "unclassified service" as that term relates to the State Merit System-do not violate Art. IV, Sec. III, Par. I b of Ga. Const. of

  • 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

  • Hough v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monte K. Davis and Victor P. Valmus, Atlanta, for Hough. Robert Stokely, Solicitor, and Sandra N. Wisenbaker, Newnan, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Gerald N. Blaney Jr., Solicitor General, Gary S. Vey, Jeffrey P. Kwiatkowski and Jason R. Samuels, Assistant Solicitors General, Lawrenceville, in S05G0311. James K. Inagawa, Solicitor General, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph S. Key Sexton & Morris PC, Stockbridge, for Handschuh, in S05G0640.
    Case Number: S05G0311; S05G0640

    The state may constitutionally require a suspect, who is not yet under arrest to submit to chemical testing where the suspect has been involved in a traffic accident resulting in serious injuries or

  • Ros v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Marr, Lawrenceville, for Ros. Wystan B. Getz Oakhurst Law Group LLC, Decatur, for Tran. Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Thomas N. Davis Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S05A0913;S05A0935

    The defendants and other me of their gang fatally attacked the victim after spotting him with rival gang me

  • Dorsey v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, and Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn R. Keyes, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, and John E. Floyd Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S05A0897

    The state was entitled to theorize to the jurors that former DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey killed Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown in order to prevent Brown from investigating and uncovering evidenc