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  • Robbins v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-12-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amy L. Ihrig Public Defender's Office, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Margaret E. Heap, District Attorney, Lyndsey H. Rudder, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Aimee F. Sobhani, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S16A1342

    The trial court did not err in admitting into evidence statements the murder victim allegedly made to her niece on the morning after her husband beat her, which the niece then relayed to a police of

  • Stanbury v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-06-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric J. Taylor Public Defender's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, David K. Getachew-Smith Sr., Chief Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Matthew B. Crowder, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S16A0321

    The trial court committed plain error in not providing a jury charge on the necessity of corroborating accomplice testimony, and the Court therefore reversed the defendant's convictions for murder a

  • Blackwell v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-05-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenya B. Herring Public Defender's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Kevin C. Armstrong District Attorney's Office, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Scott O. Teague, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S16A0270

    The defendant waived his right to withdraw his guilty plea when he agreed to testify against his co-indictees as part of a plea

  • State v. Tunkara

    Publication Date: 2016-02-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, and Sheila E. Gallow, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce S. Harvey, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S15A1715

    The trial court did not abuse its broad discretion in granting the defendant's motion for new trial based on the inadequacy of his court-appointed interpreter, which resulted in the defendant not un

  • Olvera v. University Sys. of GA's Bd. of Regents

    Publication Date: 2016-02-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Kuck Kuck Immigration Partners, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Russell D. Willard, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Allen I. P. Lightcap, and Britt C. Grant Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S15G1130

    Sovereign immunity barred the ratory judgment action filed by non-U.S. citizen college students, who were beneficiaries of the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and sought

  • Norwood v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-06-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Long D. Vo Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Kathryn L. Powers, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, 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: S15A0379

    The trial court properly declined to merge the aggravated assault and felony murder counts for sentencing purposes, since each required proof of a fact the other did not and they were separate and d

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-01-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Allen, Trion, proceeded pro se. Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Gerald Mason, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S14A1706

    The pro se defendant failed to provide the Court with any arguments or citation of authority to support his contentions on a

  • Terrell v. Terrell

    Publication Date: 2013-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sara E. Adams, Loganville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Marcy A. Hanks Foster & Hanks LLC, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13F1599

    Evidence, including the mother's positive test for THC metabolites/marijuana, supported the judgment awarding the father primary physical custody of the parties' minor dau

  • Brockman v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard C. Hagler Hagler, Henderson, Jackson & Walters, Columbus, George T. Jackson Jackson & Schiavone, and Steven L. Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julia A. F. Slater, District Attorney, William D. Kelly Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Dana E. Weinberger, Sabrina D. Graham, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and David R. Helmick Waldrep, Mullin & Callahan, Columbus, for appellee. Other party representation: Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, Jesup, and Brian Kammer Georgia Resource Ctr, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S12P1490

    The evidence supported the defendant's convictions for felony murder and criminal attempt to commit armed robbery, as the statutorily required aggravating circumstance was established since the defe

  • Ehlers v. Upper W. Side LLC

    Publication Date: 2012-11-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tyler C. Dixon Raiford & Dixon LLP, and Janet Litt Federal & Hasson LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leon A. Van Gelderen, Atlanta, and Kennon Peebles Jr., Buford, for appellees.
    Case Number: S12A0947

    The 7-year statute of limitation period applicable to reformation actions did not bar the appellee's suit seeking to reform a deed, which mistakenly described an 8-acre tract of land located in Fult