• October 3, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Bar Rates Two Judges as 'Not Recommended'

    In a political climate with PACleanSweep calling for the whole-sale rejection of virutally every Pennsylvania judge up for retention, the Philadelphia Bar Association's Commission on Jud

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  • Wright v. K-Mart Corp.

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Hugh Gordon, Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Nichole W. Stout, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: John J. Makowski Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, Macon, and Robert B. Langstaff Jr., Albany.

    Case Number: A07A0229

    The plaintiff had equal knowledge of the defendant's store's shelving unit on which he tripped and

  • Felder v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Layla V. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.

    Case Number: A07A0750

    The defendant, a jail detention officer, accepted $100 from an inmate in exchange for a handcuf

  • Sunlink Health Sys. Inc. v. Pettigrew

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas M. Burke Jr. Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglass K. Farrar Farrar & Hennesy, Douglas, for appellee.

    Case Number: A07A0817

    The plaintiff had equal knowledge of the accumulation of rainwater on the hospital's flat concrete entrance wa

  • Preston v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and David A. Zisook, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0371

    The interrogating officer's discussion of death penalty and life without parole and the officer's statement that the district attorney based charges brought on a recommendation from police amounted

  • Vereen v. Deutsche Bank Nat'l Trust Co.

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jamie A. Scaringi-Cherry Deming, Parker, Hoffman, Green & Campbell, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: John E. Robinson McLarty, Robinson & Van Voorhies LLP, William J. Linkous III, Terri Gordon DeKalb County Law Dep't, Decatur, and Monica K. Gilroy McCalla Raymer LLC, Roswell, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0519

    The trial court did not err in finding that fee simple title to the disputed property was vested in the appellee, since the bankruptcy court's annulment of an automatic stay and filing of a deed und

  • Vaughn v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas P. Lenzer and Robert W. Lenzer Lenzer & Lenzer, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, William C. Akins, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0740

    The overwhelming authority demonstrates that mtDNA evidence is sufficiently reliable to be admis

  • In the Interest of D. T.

    Publication Date: 2007-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: S. Morgan Robinson S. Morgan Robinson PC, and Jean M. Kutner Kutner & Bloom, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Hope M. Pereira, Woodstock, for appellee. Other party representation: Scott R. King Slater & King, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A06A1815

    Evidence that the mother could not control her 15-year-old child to the extent necessary for his mental, physical or emotional health and has called the police on him 44 times in 16 month period, su

  • Banks v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth D. Kondritzer, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S06A1560

    Eight post-incision autopsy photographs were admissible to show injuries under the victim's scalp and to his

  • Conway v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randolph Frails, Augusta, for Conway. Samuel W. Cruse, Augusta, for Bates. Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Edwina M. Watkins and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S06A1649; S06A1650

    The defendants hired a shooter to kill the first defendant's ex-boyfriend and the shooter killed the ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, who happened to be with him at the