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  • Jeffries v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David S. West and Bruce S. Harvey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0527

    Even if defense counsel should have objected when the detective said he did not have "the wrong guy," defendant was not prejudiced in light of the overwhelming evidence of his

  • Bergeson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David M. Rosenberg and David E. Ralston, Blue Ridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roger G. Queen, District Attorney, William B. Britt, Assistant District Attorney, Ellijay, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0046

    The trial court was not required to sequester the jury during the defendant's murder trial, because the state did not seek the death pe

  • 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

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George A. Bessonette, Homerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, Robert R. Auman, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Cairo, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0075

    Defendant claim that venire members were likely to know persons associated with the crimes of the state's investigation without more did not entitled him to a change of venue based on excessive pret

  • 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

  • Hester v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John P. Sugrue, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, David T. Lock, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1654

    Given the overwhelming evidence that the defendant killed the victim, wrapped his body in bags and duct tape and dumped it in the woods, any error in the trial court's failure to sequester the victi

  • Morgan v. Mitchell

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Rowe III, Duluth, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Charles J. Mitchell, Buford, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: S99A1392

    Habeas court's finding that defendant was harmed by his appellate counsel's failure to raise the ineffectiveness of trial counsel was unsupported, since there was no evidence that defendant would n

  • Boatman v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward F. Smith, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, James D. Lamb, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1469

    Police officer did not subject defendant to coercive, custodial interrogation by approaching defendant on the roadside and asking his name, where he was from and how long he had been in the

  • Romano v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin S. Cauley, Cairo, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, Minerva S. Cansino, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1738

    Defendant voluntarily and knowingly entered his guilty pleas to two counts of murder, since he understood the charges, the possibility of rece life sentences and the rights he was wa

  • Abrams v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter J. Lane Jr., Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles H. Weston, District Attorney, Henry O. Jones III, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1758

    The defendant's ex-wife could testify that he admitted murdering his sister since the evidence contradicted the defendant's claim that he and the ex-wife had a common law mar