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  • Jakupovic v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-05-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julia A. F. Slater, District Attorney, Sadhana P. Dailey District Attorney's Office, Columbus, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0532

    The presumptively prejudicial near 19-month delay between the grant of the defendant's motion for a new trial on charges of murder and related offenses did not cause the defendant actual prej

  • Pareja v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-11-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel and William C. Lea Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09G0960

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of alleged, but not previously reported, child abuse, which occurred 26 years before the charged crime, due to its similarity and i

  • Turner v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, Jimmy D. Berry and D. Victor Reynolds Berry & Reynolds, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1971

    The trial court did not err in admitting evidence that the defendant's boyfriend died approximately six years after her husband died of similar ethylene glycol poisoning to show her motive, bent of