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  • Widner v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Scott Key Sexton, Key & Hendrix PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and James L. Wright III, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0443; S06A1547

    Burchette v. State, 278 Ga. 1 2004, disapproving Allen charges such as the one give in this case, postdated defendant's trial and was not retroa

  • Grimes v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Renate D. Moody, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Elizabeth K. Bobbitt, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0276

    The trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion to bifurcate his trial with regard to the charge of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, since the possession charg

  • Hooks v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Caprice R. Jenerson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1744

    The evidence authorized the jury to find that a gun officers found on the defendant's girlfriend's property was the murder weapon, even though police could not make a conclusive determination as to

  • Porter-Martin v. Martin

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alison K. Arce, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James C. Watkins, Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A2090

    O.C.G.A. § 9-11-60 d does not authorize a substantive correction to a final divorce decree without an order setting aside the jud

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Kenner Jr., Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Robert E. Statham III, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1320

    The court properly admitted evidence that the defendant killed two of the state's potential witnesses prior to his murder

  • 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