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  • Henley v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-06-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Yurachek Mark A. Yurachek & Assocs., Bruce S. Harvey and Jennifer S. Hanson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0299

    The defendant shot at the v s brothers car, then fatally shot the v

  • Carson v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-05-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roderick K. Bridges, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0365

    Any error in admitting evidence that the defendant cut a witness more than 17 years before the murder was harmless, given the strength of the evidence against

  • Nixon v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-01-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Culp, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Waycross, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08A1877

    The circumstantial evidence supported the defendant's felony murder conviction for the death of his 2-month-ol

  • Acevedo v. Kim f/k/a Acevedo

    Publication Date: 2008-11-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S08A0798

    Weaver v. Jones, 260 Ga. 493 1990 decided the question of whether father's petition seeking a declaratory judgment as to his obligation for past child support stated a claim for r

  • Morris v. Morris n/k/a Surges

    Publication Date: 2008-11-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S08A1372

    Absent a transcript, the trial court was presumably correct in finding the husband in contempt for failing to comply with the prov of his divorce decree as it related to property div

  • Humphrey v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2007-11-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, And Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for Humphrey, Warden in S07A1481. Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, and Franklin J. Hogue Hogue & Hogue, Macon, for Wilson. James D. McDade, District Attorney, Douglasville, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for the State in S07A1606. Amicus appellee: David Balser McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, and Cleve L. Molette, East Point.
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    Case Number: S07A1481; S07A1606

    The defendant's 10-year sentence without possibility of parole for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old when defendant was 17 constituted cruel and unusual punis

  • Palmer v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-10-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nina M. Svoren and Timothy P. Healy Healy & Svoren, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarksville, and Richard K. Bridgeman, District Attorney, Jefferson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07G0454

    O.C.G.A. § 17-7-110, as enacted in 2003, gave the defendant 10 days following his arraignment in which to file his special demu

  • Ganaway v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0866

    The defendant stabbed the unarmed victim to death with a 9-inch

  • Georgia Pine Community Serv. Bd. v. Summerlin

    Publication Date: 2007-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary L. Seacrest and Annarita M. Busbee Seacrest, Karesh, Tate & Bicknese LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cale H. Conley, Richard A. Griggs Conley Griggs LLP, Atlanta, and C. Frederick Overby Overby Law Office PC, Columbus, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Loretta L. Pinkston and Jennifer L. Dalton, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S06G1461

    Both O.C.G.A. § 9-11-4 and 50-21-35 apply to service of process under the Georgia Tort Claim

  • State v. Aiken

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William K. Wynn Jr., District Attorney, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: John L. Strauss, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07G0126

    The trial court did not err in determining that the state probation officer's statement was co