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  • Grier v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Phillips, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles H. Weston, District Attorney, Elizabeth K. Bobbitt, Dorothy A. Vinson, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1996

    Defense counsel reasonably used stage photographs demonstrating the trajectory of the fatal bullet to discredit the state's theory on how the victim was shot, rather than objecting to there admissib

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael L. Edwards Quillian, Loncon & Edwards and Diane M. McLeod, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Gregory M. McConnell, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1428

    Evidence that defendant shot an unarmed man several hours after he discovered the man had been visiting his wife was admissible to show his motive and intent in shooting the victim who was hassling

  • Pendergrass v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Floyd H. Farless, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, Charles S. Cox, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1520

    Murder defendant had no constitutional right to the effective assistance of her expert who testified that she suffered from battered person syn

  • Tessmer v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sandra J. Popson Katz, Flatau, Popson & Boyer LLP, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, Paul E. Hemmann, Assistant District Attorney, Barnesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1397

    Th evidence supported the battered police woman's felony murder conviction for shooting her husband in the chest after he rape

  • Quintanilla v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-11-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William F. Rucker, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker, Barbara B. Conroy, Robert E. Statham III, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and W. Swain Wood Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1186

    Defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to admissible gang related photographs which showed the circumstances surrounding the gang victim's m

  • Collins v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-11-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey S. Bowman, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1496

    Defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to character evidence that established defendant's motive for committing the c

  • McCulley v.State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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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, A. James Rockefeller, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0756

    The deceased co-defendant's handwritten statement exculpating the defendant was not admissible as a statement against penal int

  • Gibson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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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: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0790

    The trial court's inquiry into the numerical division of the deadlocked did not violate the defendant's right to a fair and impartial

  • Thompkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Orin L. Alexis, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Jerome M. Rothschild Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1341

    Because the defendant had to admit that he shot the victim to support his justification defense, his trial counsel was not ineffective for addressing that fact in opening state

  • Porter v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn M. Friedewald, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0377

    Trial court did not have to give defendant's requested charge on self-defense since evidence that he emptied a pistol into the unarmed, fleeing victim did not suppo