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  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-09-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Agis R. Bray III Public Defender's Office, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Vicki S. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Frances C. Kuo, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S14A0988

    The evidence authorized the jury to disbelieve the defendant's claim of self-defense in his murder

  • Choisnet v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-07-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Margaret E. Heap, District Attorney, Isabel M. Pauley, Shalena C. Jones, Assistant District Attorneys, Savannah, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Andrew G. Sims, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S14A0578

    The evidence was far from clear as to whether the defendant acted as the result of any delusional compulsion when he beat, stabbed and strangled his elderly father to

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-07-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nancy L. Anderson Anderson & Bradley, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Jessica W. Clark, Tracy K. Chapman, Assistant District Attorneys, Valdosta, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Meghan H. Hill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S14A0558

    The defendant's convictions and sentences for aggravated assault and armed robbery should have merged into his felony murder convictions predicated on those off

  • Crawford v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-04-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maryann F. Blend, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Justin D. Unger District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1875

    Cellular phone records provided circumstantial corroboration of a co-conspirator's testimony that the defendant was involved in a home invasion burglary, false imprisonment and murder of the victim,

  • Hartsfield v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-04-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn M. Kleinrock, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jerry W. Chappell II, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1608

    The evidence, including the testimony of two co-conspirators implicating the defendant in the crimes, supported his convictions for felony murder, armed robbery and aggravated as

  • Hamm v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-03-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie R. Lowry, Public Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Frances C. Kuo, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Michael D. Thurston, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine T. Parvis, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1696

    Hall v. State, 241 Ga. App. 252 1978 and its progeny, overruled, to the extent that those cases held that it is not error for a trial court to refuse to give a requested instruction on accomplice co

  • Wright v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-03-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh B. Merchant The Merchant Law Firm PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Deborah D. Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ryan A. Kolb, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1786

    Two eyewitnesses identified the defendant as the gunman who drove up in a car brandishing an AK-14, demanded to know where the victim was, and then fatally sho

  • Hassel v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-02-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jana W. Jacobson Public Defender's Office, Royston, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, Brian V. Patterson, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Athens, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1382

    Although the evidence was unclear as to whether the defendant was the actual triggerman in a fatal shooting, ample evidence showed that he was a party to the crimes surrounding the murder, which was

  • Griffin v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-12-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica R. Towne Clark & Towne PC, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Robby A. King, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and David A. Bikoff, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0967

    A showing of a simple buy-sell drug transaction, without more, does not support a conviction for consp

  • Allaben v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-12-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Deborah D. Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0949

    The defendant's convictions for malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault with intent to murder and simple battery were mutually exclusive of his conviction for reckless co