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  • Roberts v. Cooper

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. King Jr., Dublin, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Attorney General, Atlanta, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore Mercer Law School and Stuart E. Walker Martin Snow LLP, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1512

    The mailbox rule, stated in Massaline v. Williams, 274 Ga. 552 2001, is to be applied only in the circumstances presented therein, i.e., the attempted appeal of a pro se habeas petitioner operating

  • Carter v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-07-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles E. W. Barrow, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, Elberton, James A. Carmichael, Assistant District Attorney, Hartwell, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Mary K. Ware, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0228

    The defendant fatally shot his brother in the head as his brother was running away fro

  • Acevedo v. Kim f/k/a Acevedo

    Publication Date: 2008-11-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    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

  • Mercer v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
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    Case Number: A07A1740

    The defendant's conviction for one count of aggravated assault merged into his conviction for armed robbery of the same v

  • State v. Hunter

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Ayana C. Curry, Assistant District Attorney, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: L. David Wolfe and Michael J. Antoniolli L. David Wolfe PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0139

    Officer's affidavit provided a substantial basis for the magistrate to determine that probable cause existed to justify issuing a warrant to search the defendant's suspected home for evidence relat

  • Greer v. Thompson

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Mark A. Gilbert, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James N. Finkelstein, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1431

    The trial court did not improperly express an opinion when it read two notes from the jury and stated that someone offered a bribe on the defendant's b

  • State v. Cooper

    Publication Date: 2006-10-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarkesville, and Richard K. Bridgeman, Assistant District Attorney, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas L. Henry, Clarkesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1243

    The evidence demanded a finding that Cooper entered his 1992 guilty pleas freely and volunt

  • Salmeron v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ricky W. Morris Jr., McDonough, and J. Scott Key Sexton, Key & Hendrix PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Blair D. Mahaffey, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05G1394

    The arresting officer did not unreasonably expand the scope or dur of a valid traffic stop when he asked for and was granted permission to search the defendant's car while he was issuing a cit

  • 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

  • Hames v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Millsaps, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Raina Nadler, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0489

    The defendant shot and killed his brother after mistaking him for a crouching a