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  • Julius v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wystan B. Getz Oakhurst Law Group of Getz LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Lawrenceville, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0048

    Forensic evidence showed that the defendant shot the victim in the back of the

  • Hubbard v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Rasnick, Manchester, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, John M. Caldwell, Assistant District Attorney, LaGrange, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Reggie A. Lampkin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1235

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the defendant's motion to remove a prospective juror, who knew the victim's family from seeing them at local churches and who went to the fune

  • Bragg v. Oxford Constr. Co.

    Publication Date: 2009-02-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig A. Webster The Webster Firm PC, Norcross, and Ralph O. Scoccimaro Brown & Scoccimaro PC, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Carrie L. Christie Rutherford & Christie, and Frank M. Lowrey IV and Nicole G. Iannarone Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08G1031

    The acceptance doctrine applicable to independent contractors barred the plaintiffs' recovery against the defendant for injuries allegedly caused by the defendant's work under contract for the count

  • City of Greenville v. Bray

    Publication Date: 2008-12-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
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    Case Number: S08A0692

    The city's appeal of the qualification of appellee for mayor was moot since the city delayed filing its appeal until after the election results showed that the appellee prev

  • Wood v. Wood

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
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    Case Number: S07F1474

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in determining that a home in Tattnall county was t e's separate property, since the husband quitclaimed any interest he had in the property to

  • Peterson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg, 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: S06A0664

    The defendant initially told police that his 15-year-old girlfriend was fatally shot in a drive-by sho then blamed a family acquaintance, before finally taking responsibility for the sho

  • King v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Albert B. Wallace and Stephen B. Wallace II Albert B. Wallace PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles J. Driebe, Keith C. Martin Driebe & Driebe PC, Jonesboro, and Howard P. Wallace Howard, Pelham & Wallace PC, Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0842

    The jury was authorized to draw its own conclusion regarding the extent of the decedent's lucidity or incapacity after viewing a videotape of the decedent's

  • 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