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  • King v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Healan III, Winder, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1490

    O.C.G.A. § 24-9-40 a violates the Georgia Constitution's right to privacy to the extent it allows a health care provider to release medical records on subpoena by the

  • 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

  • October 27, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Hunstein hits Wiggins with ad about his family trouble

    THE SIMMERING RACE for a seat on the Supreme Court of Georgia grew white-hot this week, as Presiding Justice Carol W. Hunstein released a television advertisement that challenger J. Michael W

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  • July 11, 2007 | Daily Report Online

    Money matters at Georgia Supreme Court

    THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS aren't the only ones gearing up earlier than ever. Despite no announced opposition, the two members of the state Supreme Court up for re-election in 2008 are buildi

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  • July 24, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Chief urges judges to unite to fight cuts

    Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Carol W. Hunstein this week told judges representing the state's courts that new budget cuts sought by Gov. Sonny Perdue, if forced upon the courts, could

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  • August 30, 2010 | Daily Report Online

    Judiciary balks at cutting spending

    Raising again the possibility of a battle between branches of state government, a spokesman for Gov. Sonny Perdue said that Georgia's judiciary has rejected the governor's request that it spe

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  • March 16, 2010 | Daily Report Online

    In Win for Tort Reform Advocates, Ga. Supreme Court Upholds ER Med-Mal Standard

    The Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday dealt a two-pronged blow to plaintiffs lawyers, rejecting challenges to two parts of the 2005 tort reform package. The court split 4-3 to uphold a rul

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  • March 17, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Federal case adds to state recusal debate

    A recent decision by a federal appeals court in Atlanta may make it more difficult to challenge laws that govern judges' decisions to recuse, including those proposed in a bill pending at the

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