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  • Stewart v. Milliken

    Publication Date: 2004-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas M. West, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0083

    The state did not challenge the merits of defendant's ineffectiveness of appellate counsel claims after the habeas court resolved them in defendant's

  • Thompson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Elizabeth Lane, Macon, and James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Katherine E. K. Lumsden and Amy E. Smith, Assistant District Attorneys, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03G0176

    Proper sufficiency of the evidence review on appeal is limited to evidence actually presented at

  • Capote v. Ray

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roger A. Baruch Center for Prisoners' Legal Assistance, Alpharetta, and James C. Bonner Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, and Sharon D. Stokes, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1179

    The defendant's appeal of the dismissal of his habeas petition was not subject to dismissal under Fullwood v. Sivley, 271 Ga. 248 1999, even though he failed to file an application for a certificate

  • Johnson v. Riverdale Anesthesia Assocs. PC

    Publication Date: 2002-08-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary Hill Hill & Bleiberg, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . H. Andrew Owen Jr., Amy J. Kolczak Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, and Larry K. Evans Evans & Evans, Griffin, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Robert P. Monyak, Lucas W. Andrews Love, Willingham, Peters, Gilleland &Monyak, Philip C. Henry Henry, Spiegel, Fried & Milling LLP, Charles A. Mathis Jr. Middleton, Mathis, Adams & Tate PC, Atlanta, J. Vincent Cook Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael, Athens, and Joel O. Wooten Jr. Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer, Daugherty & Sullivan, Columbus.
    Case Number: S01G1138

    The trial court properly excluded plaintiffs' irrelevant questions regarding what a defense expert would personally have done under the circumstances since the applicable standard of care is one emp

  • Usry v. Farr

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wendell E. Johnston Jr. and William J. Williams Johnston, Wilkin & Williams, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Carl H. Hodges and Timothy K. King Carl H. Hodges & Assocs., Jonesboro, for appellees.
    Case Number: S01A0784

    Under the terms of the testator's will, the remainder interest which he left to his grandchildren vested at time of the testator's death and not at the death of his last surviving life t

  • Prater v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-04-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Cauthorn III Cauthorn & Phillips, Marietta, for Prater. Marc D. Cella, Marietta, for Thomas. Alan J. Baverman, Atlanta, for Tomlinson. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Maria B. Golick, Eleanor A. Kornahrens, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S00A1684; S00A1685; S00A1686

    State's failure to seek convictions for felony murder based on the lesser included offense of attempted armed robbery in defendants' first trial barred any retrial for that

  • Tessmer v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sandra J. Popson Katz, Flatau, Popson & Boyer LLP, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, Paul E. Hemmann, Assistant District Attorney, Barnesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1397

    Th evidence supported the battered police woman's felony murder conviction for shooting her husband in the chest after he rape

  • Security Life Ins. Co. of Am. v. Clark

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Barwick, Teresa W. Roseborough, Robert J. Neis, Amelia T. Rudolph and Carla W. McMillian Sutherland, Asbill & Brennann LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Preyesh K. Maniklal, Hardy Gregory Jr., Davis, Gregory, Christy & Forehand, Cordele, William S. Stone and Kevin R. Dean William S. Stone PC, Blakely, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Harold G. Clarke Troutman Sanders, George E. Duncan Jr. Duncan & Mangiafico, Allen S. Willingham Love & Willingham, Lewis E. Hassett Morris, Manning & Martin, Atlanta, Thomas C. Alexander Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, Billy N. Jones Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, Peter R. Chaffetz, Thomas J. McCormack and Stanley B. Lutz Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York, NY, Victoria E. Fimea, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S00G0006

    The Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals' decision in Security Life Ins. Co. v. Clark, 239 Ga. App. 690 1999, holding that it violated the law of the case doctrine on remand from the Supreme

  • Veasley v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sandra L. Michaels, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1349

    Defendant filed his notice of appeal from his convictions for murder, aggravated assault and cocaine possession more than 10 months after the court denied his motion for a new

  • Security Life Ins. Co. of Am. v. Clark

    Publication Date: 2000-09-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Barwick, Teresa W. Roseborough, Robert J. Neis, Amelia T. Rudolph and Carla W. McMillian Sutherland, Asbill & Brennann LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Preyesh K. Maniklal, Hardy Gregory Jr., Davis, Gregory, Christy & Forehand, Cordele, William S. Stone and Kevin R. Dean William S. Stone PC, Blakely, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Harold G. Clarke Troutman Sanders, George E. Duncan Jr. Duncan & Mangiafico, Allen S. Willingham Love & Willingham, Lewis E. Hassett Morris, Manning & Martin, Atlanta, Thomas C. Alexander Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, Billy N. Jones Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, Peter R. Chaffetz, Thomas J. McCormack and Stanley B. Lutz Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York, NY, Victoria E. Fimea, Washington, DC.
    Case Number: S00G0006

    The Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals' decision in Security Life Ins. Co. v. Clark, 239 Ga. App. 690 1999, holding that it violated the law of the case doctrine on remand from the Supreme