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  • 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

  • Opio v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-03-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1905

    Defense counsel was not deficient for not objecting to a MARTA officer's testimony about a statement an unidentified man made to her at a train station, since the evidence was cumulative of the vict

  • Underberg v. Southern Alarm Inc.

    Publication Date: 2007-03-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James B. Franklin, Wesley C. Taulbee Franklin, Taulbee, Rushing, Snipes & Marsh PC, Statesboro, Kathryn H. Pinckney and Brent J. Savage Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: A. Martin Kent, Catherine M. Palumbo Martin Kent PC, and Edgar P. Williams Bouhan, Williams & Levy, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2349

    Factual questions remained as to whether a security service dealer owed the plaintiff a duty to perform a background check on an employee, who worked for the dealer selling home security systems doo

  • Ewing v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George O. Lawson Jr. Lawson & Thornton PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Amber A. Robinson and Cleora S. Anderson City of Atlanta Law Dept., Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A1988

    The trial court erred in construing the pleadings most favorably to the city and the city's chief of police in dismissing a police lieutenant's petition for a writ of mandamus, seeking to require th

  • In the Interest of A. B.

    Publication Date: 2007-01-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blanton C. Lingold, Milledgeville, for the father. Carl S. Cansino, Milledgeville, for the mother. Thomas J. O'Donnell, Douglas L. Price, Milledgeville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Virginia B. Fuller, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A06A1995; A06A1996

    Despite the juvenile court finding clear and convincing evidence that the father had sexually abused one of his children, the mother continued to trust the father and allowed him back into the

  • Greer v. Thompson

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Mark A. Gilbert, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James N. Finkelstein, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1431

    The trial court did not improperly express an opinion when it read two notes from the jury and stated that someone offered a bribe on the defendant's b

  • Robinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony J. Morgese, Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Susan K. Treadaway, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2426

    The trial court did not err in refusing to accept the jury's first verdict of guilty with reasonable doubt as an acquittal and in sending the jury out for further delibera

  • 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

  • Lee v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney A. Williams Franklin & Hubbard, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1624

    Evidence of a third virtually identical robbery was admissible as part of the res gestae and to show the defendant's mind, knowledge and intent in allowing the use of her car in the first two robb