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  • Dawson v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-11-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean H. Joyner The Joyner Law Firm, and Keith C. Martin, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Michael D. Thurston, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Elizabeth M. Haase, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S16A0786

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions for malice murder, burglary and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime after he entered his estranged wife's house and stabbed her and

  • Ballard v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-06-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Kraus Public Defender's Office, Jonesboro, for Ballard. Kevin A. Anderson Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for Soun. Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ryan A. Kolb Carlock, Copeland Stair LLP, Atlanta, for State.
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    Case Number: S15A0463; S15A0464

    The trial court properly declined to sever one co-defendant's trial from the other's, since they were the only two defendants, there was virtually no likelihood that the jury would confuse the evid

  • Collier v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick G. Longhi, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Anne E. Green, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1958

    The defendant shot the victim in the leg and then shot him in the head after the victim's vehicle stalled out a few blocks from where the victim grabbed a bag of crack cocaine from the defendant and