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  • Mays v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Elizabeth Lane, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Angela J. Manson, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0777

    The defendant could not show harm from the trial court's favorable ruling, which allowed her to testify that both she and the victim were gang members so that she could establish prior difficulties

  • Gay v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John K. Gross, Metter, for appellant.
    for defendant: William S. Askew, District Attorney, Charles D. Howard, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Raina J. Nadler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0401

    The trial court's error in admitting a witness's st ts in violation of federal and state confrontation clauses was harmless, since the hearsay portion of the testimony regarding the witness's s

  • Woods v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Darel C. Mitchell, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Rodney K. Miles, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0448

    The legislature specifically enacted O. § 16-13-33 under the Controlled Substances Act to provide for potentially higher punishment than the general punishment provision for criminal attempt-O

  • Watson v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-11-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Sexton and Joseph S. Key Sexton & Morris PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1098

    Venue in Fulton county was appropriate, since the victim's body was found there and the evidence did not readily show where she was k

  • Cagle v. Cagle

    Publication Date: 2003-10-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell W. Smith and Joshua D. Huckaby Sanders & Smith PC, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: M. K. York Kimzey, Kimzey & York, Cornelia, and Allan R. Ramsay McClure, Ramsay, Dickerson & Escoe LLP, Toccoa, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A1316

    The doctrine of laches barred plaintiff's claim for a constructive trust on real property, which she brought 36 years after defendant acquired sole title to the property in que

  • Carlisle v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Daniel K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03G0114

    The trial court lacked jurisdiction to try the defendant for offenses, which were nolle prossed, were not reinstated by an order vacating the nolle prosse within the same term of court and were not

  • Manuel v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Edward Marks Jr., Loganville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Alan A. Cook, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jill M. Zubler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0780

    The trial court properly admitted similar transaction evidence that the defendant committed an armed robbery three years earlier to show the defendant's course of co

  • George v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0545

    Defendant's convictions for malice murder and aggravated assault involving different victims did not

  • Shahid v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven E. Phillips, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jill M. Zubler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0668

    The prosecutor was no incompetent per se for failing to pay his bar

  • Stafford v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Ferguson and Russell B. Lariscy Jr., Blue Ridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roger G. Queen, District Attorney, Jasper, William B. Britt, Assistant District Attorney, Ellijay, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jill M. Zubler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0690

    Evidence that the unarmed victim approached defendant and swatted at him did not demand a finding of voluntary manslaughter where defendant stabbed the victim with a 5-inch