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  • 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

  • McNeal v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan A. Welch, Millen, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1459

    The defendant offered only hearsay statements about the expected testimony of witnesses his counsel allegedly failed to locate for

  • Walker v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward W. Clary, St. Marys, and Richard O. Allen, Atlantic Beach, Fla., for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, George C. Turner Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Woodbine, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Patricia B. A. Burton, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Holly L. Geerdes, Georgia Capital Defender, Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr., and Richard A. Malone Prosecuting Attorneys' Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S06P0992

    The state's failure to include the statutory aggravating circumstances in its notice of intent to seek the death penalty was harmless, since one of the statutory circumstances on which the state rel

  • Sauerwein v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Branch Connelly, Jeffrey G. Gilley and Bobby L. Cook Cook & Connelly, Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, George C. Turner Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Woodbine, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0089

    The trial court did not improperly interject its own opinion in the case by asking the infant murder victim's mother if the victim was teething at the time the defendant struck the victim and then r

  • Pitts v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis M. Turchiarelli, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gary T. Moss, District Attorney, and Samuel K. Barger, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05G1156

    A 911 call made while the crime was in progress for the purpose of seeing immediate assistance is not testimonial in n

  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reed Edmondson Jr., Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Monroe, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0870

    The state properly authenticated a 911 audiotape of a caller reporting that the defendant was beating the victim, who later died of a bacterial infection arising from the treatment for blood clots o

  • Bridges v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Billy L. Spruell and Melinda D. Taylor Spruell, Taylor & Assocs. PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Joseph K. Mulholland, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0446

    The trial court's error in admitting irrelevant evidence that the defendant bribed a corrections officer to bring him certain amenities while he was in jail awaiting trial was harmless, in light of

  • Thompson v. Thompson

    Publication Date: 2004-12-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles M. Cork III Reynolds & McArthur, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: John K. Train IV and Claire C. Murray Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S04G0766

    The trial court reversibly erred in a medical malpractice case in charging the jury that proximate cause is "sometimes called the dominant c

  • Thompson v. Thompson

    Publication Date: 2004-11-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles M. Cork III Reynolds & McArthur, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: John K. Train IV and Claire C. Murray Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S04G0766

    The trial court reversibly erred in a medical malpractice case in charging the jury that proximate cause is "sometimes called the dominant c

  • Bell v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Amy E. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0064

    The trial court erred under the recent decision in State v. Marlowe, 277 Ga. 383, 385-387 589 SE2d 69 2003, in sentencing the defendant for both sion of a knife during commission of murder and