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  • Duffie v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larkin M. Lee, Zebulon, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Daniel A. Hiatt, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1638

    The trial court had discretion to recharge the jury on malice murder and justification without recharging on post-traumatic stress disorder, which defendant relied on in support of his justification

  • Prater v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Cauthorn III Cauthorn & Phillips, Marietta, for Prater. Marc D. Cella, Marietta, for Thomas. Alan J. Baverman, Atlanta, for Tomlinson. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Maria B. Golick, Eleanor A. Kornahrens, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S00A1684; S00A1685; S00A1686

    State's failure to seek convictions for felony murder based on the lesser included offense of attempted armed robbery in defendants' first trial barred any retrial for that

  • 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

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Robert Joiner, 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, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1184

    Because the jury's written note to the trial court indicated that the jury had already reached a verdict, any error in the trial court's communication with the jury outside of defendant's presence w

  • Beck v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tony L. Axam, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roger G. Queen, District Attorney, Ellijay, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1022

    The defendant was not entitled to present expert testimony to help the jury understand that work related stresses provoked him to shoot his supervisor after the supervisor told him he was

  • Byrd v. Owen

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Herman M. Kilgore, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James C. Carr Jr., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1062

    The state's failure to disclose its immunity agreement with its key witness entitled the murder defendant to habeas r

  • 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

  • Winn v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. O'Dell, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, Martha P. Jacobs, Fred R. Simpson, Assistant District Attorneys, Rome, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0545

    The state has authority to cross-examine a defense witness regarding whether an investigator asked him to leave some things out of his test

  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmy J. Boatright, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, George E. Barnhill, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0194

    Defendant who claimed he shot the victims in self-defense was not entitled to an involuntary manslaughter c

  • Wallace v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Glenn Richardson Vinson, Talley, Richardson & Cable PA, Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Waycross, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0104

    The defendant was not prejudiced by his counsel's failure to object to comments on his right to remain s