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  • Cook v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Abda L. Quillian Quillian, Loncon & Edwards LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rene J. Martin III, District Attorney, Tony A. May, Statesboro, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1464

    Out-of-state witness's statements were admissible under the necessity exception to the hearsay rule because the state was unable to secure her presence at

  • Blake v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melvin Abercrombie Abercrombie Law Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Kristin L. Wood, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1857

    Evidence that defendant threatened to kill the mother of his child shortly before the victim's murder was admissible to rebut his insanity de

  • Atilano v. Board of Comm'rs of Columbia County

    Publication Date: 2001-02-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul W. David, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William J. Keogh III Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley, Harry D. Revell Burnside, Wall, Daniel, Ellison & Revell, Leonard O. Fletcher Jr., Wand William L. Fletcher Fletcher, Harley & Fletcher, Augusta, for appellee. Other party representation: Kay Allen, Tax Commissioner, and Pat Hardaway, Probate Judge, Appling.
    Case Number: S00A2058

    County's interest in relocating a private, abandoned cemetery outweighed any competing interests in leaving the cemetery undist

  • Bailey v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George D. Bush, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Charles R. Sheppard, Nancy B. Johnson, Assistant District Attorneys, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1540

    Murder defendant was not entitled to a sua sponte mistrial after the state referred to his co-indictee's guilty pleas during opening argu

  • Security Life Ins. Co. of Am. v. Clark

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Barwick, Teresa W. Roseborough, Robert J. Neis, Amelia T. Rudolph and Carla W. McMillian Sutherland, Asbill & Brennann LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Preyesh K. Maniklal, Hardy Gregory Jr., Davis, Gregory, Christy & Forehand, Cordele, William S. Stone and Kevin R. Dean William S. Stone PC, Blakely, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Harold G. Clarke Troutman Sanders, George E. Duncan Jr. Duncan & Mangiafico, Allen S. Willingham Love & Willingham, Lewis E. Hassett Morris, Manning & Martin, Atlanta, Thomas C. Alexander Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, Billy N. Jones Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, Peter R. Chaffetz, Thomas J. McCormack and Stanley B. Lutz Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York, NY, Victoria E. Fimea, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S00G0006

    The Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals' decision in Security Life Ins. Co. v. Clark, 239 Ga. App. 690 1999, holding that it violated the law of the case doctrine on remand from the Supreme

  • Dean v. Tabsum Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert A. Falanga Falanga & Chalker and Allen E. Bates Allen E. Bates & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Robert C. Edwards, Assistant Attorney General, Bruce A. Taylor Jr. Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Mark L. Stuckey, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S00A1331

    O.C.G.A. § 50-21-28 establishes venue in suits against the state, even if the state is not the sole tortf

  • Thompson v. Ezor

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hunter S. Allen Jr., Scott A. Miller, Gary R. McCain Allen, Weathington & Reeves PC, and Michael D. Flint Krevolin & Horst LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Samuel S. Olens Ezor & Olens PC, Atlanta, and Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00G0613

    The self-contradictory testimony rule does not apply to the testimony of non-party expert witn

  • Security Life Ins. Co. of Am. v. Clark

    Publication Date: 2000-09-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Barwick, Teresa W. Roseborough, Robert J. Neis, Amelia T. Rudolph and Carla W. McMillian Sutherland, Asbill & Brennann LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Preyesh K. Maniklal, Hardy Gregory Jr., Davis, Gregory, Christy & Forehand, Cordele, William S. Stone and Kevin R. Dean William S. Stone PC, Blakely, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Harold G. Clarke Troutman Sanders, George E. Duncan Jr. Duncan & Mangiafico, Allen S. Willingham Love & Willingham, Lewis E. Hassett Morris, Manning & Martin, Atlanta, Thomas C. Alexander Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, Billy N. Jones Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, Peter R. Chaffetz, Thomas J. McCormack and Stanley B. Lutz Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York, NY, Victoria E. Fimea, Washington, DC.
    Case Number: S00G0006

    The Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals' decision in Security Life Ins. Co. v. Clark, 239 Ga. App. 690 1999, holding that it violated the law of the case doctrine on remand from the Supreme

  • Stone v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Russell J. Parker, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0314

    The defendant was not entitled to have an out-of-state att conduct portions of his trial because he was already represented by a competent Georgia att

  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jon V. Forehand Allen & Forehand, Moultrie, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, Andrew W. Pope, Assistant District Attorney, Moultrie, Charles M. Stines, Cairo, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wesley S. Wood, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0563

    The defendant was not entitled to a charge on eyewitness identification in the absence of a contention at trial that a witness misidentifie