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  • Powell v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gilbert J. Murrah, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles M. Ferguson, District Attorney, Ron S. Smith, Chief Assistant District Attorney, T. Craig Ernest District Attorney's Office, Cuthbert, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee,
    Case Number: S09A1561

    Evidence of extramarital affairs does not constitute evidence of prior difficu

  • Hotels.com v. City of Columbus

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry A. Buchanan Buchanan & Land, Columbus, Edward K. Smith and Robin A. Schmahl Jones Day, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William U. Norwood III, Michael L. McGlamry, Neal K. Pope, Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, Robert M. Travis, John R. Bielema Jr. Michael P. Carey Bryan, Cave, Powell & Goldstein, Atlanta, Charles N. Pope, Wade H. Tomlinson III and Paul Kilpatrick Jr. Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0906

    The trial court did not err in basing hotel occupancy taxes, which an on-line travel company owes to the City of Columbus, on the hotel rate it charged to its customers, rather than the lower wholes

  • State v. Burks

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julia A. F. Slater, District Attorney, and Douglas L. Breault, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank K. Martin and John T. Martin The Martin Firm LLP, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1145

    The defendant, a convicted felon, was not entitled to immunity under O.C.G.A. § 16-3-24.2-defense of habitation, because he is not entitled to carry or possess a fi

  • McClure v. Kemp

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ivy N. Cadle Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell and Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore Mercer Law School, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1371

    Appellate counsel was deficient for failing to challenge the defendant's conviction under Cooper v. State, 277 Ga. 282

  • Merritt v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy L. Eidson, Clinton L. Lott IV, Fitzgerald, and Stephen W. Czarnota, Cordele, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, Cheri L. Nichols, Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1088

    Evidence that the defendant shot the victim in the back of the head while he was sitting in his recliner in his home after a 20-year tumultuous relationship supported her murder convi

  • Glover v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-06-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phyllis R. Williams, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0508

    The witnesses' recorded statements to a 911 operator were admissible as part of the res g

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-01-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd W. Walker, Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Fayetteville, Robert W. Smith Jr., Randall K. Coggin, Assistant District Attorneys, Griffin, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08A1878

    The defendant failed to show that the pretrial publicity of his case created an inherently prejudicial atmosphere or affected the jurors' ability to be fair and impa

  • In the Interest of K. R. S.

    Publication Date: 2008-02-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
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    Case Number: S08A2005

    Georgia's Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act is not unconstitutionally vague or over

  • City of College Park v. Wyatt

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Winston A. Denmark and Steven M. Fincher Fincher Denmark & Williams LLC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephanie K. Jones and Beverly R. Adams Deming, Parker, Hoffman, Green & Campbell, Norcross, for appellees.
    Case Number: S07A0641

    The appellee met the only qualification for serving on the board of the College Park Business and Industrial Development Authority-that the member reside within College Park's city limits for at le

  • Fulton County v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-10-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Willie J. Lovett Jr., Overtis H. Brantley, Marina K. Duncan and Coy J. Johnson Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Gary Parker Public Defender Standards Council, Robert B. Remar, Thomas J. Mew IV Rogers & Hardin, Atlanta, Robert L. McGlasson McGlasson & Assocs. PC, Decatur, Henderson Hill and Jacob H. Sussman Ferguson, Stein, Chambers, Gresham & Sumter, Charlotte, NC, for appellee. Amicus appellant: James F. Grubiak, Kemuel A. Kimbrough, Atlanta, and Jeff S. Akins Bullock County Bd. of Comm'rs, Statesboro.
    Case Number: S07A1149

    O.C.G.A. § 15-6-24, which calls for a county to pay itemized expenses ordinarily incurred in a courtroom proceeding, does not expressly authorize the costs of transcribing telephone conversations at