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  • Carroll v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-05-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kirk E. Gilliard Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0354

    The defendant's inquiry as to how he would be appointed a lawyer was not an unambiguous request for counsel requiring the cessation of custodial questi

  • Hall v. Lofton

    Publication Date: 2002-05-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank C. Vann, Camilla, and Robert K. Meyer, Louisville, Ky., for appellant.
    for defendant: . David A. Kendrick Kirbo & Kendrick, Bainbridge, for appellees.
    Case Number: S02A0392

    7-year statute of limitation for action seeking to set aside a deed barred the suit which plaintiffs filed more than 49 years after the execution and recordation of deed and more than 36 years after

  • Callendar v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas N. Peters Peters, Roberts, Borsuk & Rubin PA, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1292

    Defense counsel's decision not to move to sever defendant's trial was a matter of trial strategy where it appeared that the co-defendant actually shot and killed the murder v

  • Springs v. Seese

    Publication Date: 2002-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.
    for defendant: Terryl S. Seese, Nicholls, proceeded pro se. Amicus appellee: James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S01A1239

    The habeas court misapplied the applicable law in failing to consider defense counsel's reasonable explanation for withdrawing his request for an alibi c

  • Mangum v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce S. Harvey and David S. West, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, George W. K. Snyder Jr., Senior Assistant District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0592

    The trial court improperly limited defendant's cross-examination of several of the state's juvenile witnesses as to whether they had pending adjudications that would affect their credib

  • Mitchell v. Mitchell

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Robert Melton Haygood, Lynch, Harris & Melton LLP, Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Karen K. Martin Martin & Martin, Barnesville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S01A1177

    The trial court chose the most equitable solution to a conflict involving five children and five lots when the trial court awarded defendants the property upon which their house was located, even th

  • Roland v. Meadows

    Publication Date: 2001-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony Roland, Unadilla, proceeded pro se. Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S01A0332

    Following the revocation of defendant's first-offender probation for child molestation, the trial court properly resentenced him to 10 years with five years to serve over and above his previous time

  • Dean v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William B. Barnwell Avrett, Ponder & Withrock, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0265

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting several crime scene photographs of the victim's

  • Felder v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Amy E. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0126

    Post-autopsy photographs were admissible to show the type of weapon used, the angle and location of the victim's wound and the length of the

  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1624

    The trial court erred in charging that the jury could infer defendant's intent to kill from his use of a deadly w