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  • Hargrove v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cedric B. Davis Adams & Jordan PC, and Walter C. Green II, Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fredric D. Bright, District Attorney, Gray, Stephen A. Bradley, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Eatonton, Daniel B. Cochran District Attorney's Office, Monticello, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1081

    The defendant fatally shot a confidential informant multiple times in his head and ab

  • Odom v. Odom

    Publication Date: 2012-10-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Szczecko Simmons & Szczecko PC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin W. Porter The Porter Law Firm LLC, Atlanta, and Robert G. Morton, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1433

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting an upward modification of child support based on a substantial change in the husband's income and financial s

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee W. Fitzpatrick, Kennesaw, for appellant.
    for defendant: David McDade, District Attorney, James A. Dooley, Emily K. Richardson, Assistant District Attorneys, Douglasville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Dana E. Weinberger, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1387

    The defendant's statements to police, his actions before and after the crimes, and his girlfriend's testimony that he asked her to lie about his whereabouts corroborated the testimony of his accom

  • Doyle v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard M. Darden Darden Law Firm, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry Chisolm, District Attorney, Thomas M. Cerbone, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Dana E. Weinberger, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1036

    The defendant's 14-year-old brother identified him as the gunman, who shot through a door at a return-to-college party in Savannah four times, wounding three victims, one of them fa

  • Wilkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Justin J. Wyatt, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Jesse D. Evans, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Anna G. Cross, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine L. Iannuzzi, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0658

    The state's proffered reasons for its three peremptory strikes used against African-American prospective jurors were race-neutral and not pre-te

  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Deborah D. Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine R. Thrower, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1182

    Trial counsel's strategy in not objecting to hearsay statements from an eyewitness and the victim's brother was reasonable under the circumst

  • Dunn v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth M. Grant, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, Brian V. Patterson, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1139

    Any violation of the ant's right to privacy resulting from the prosecutor's use of testimony from a treating nurse was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt given the overwhelming evidence of the

  • Milford v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Bearden Jr., Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory W. Winters, District Attorney, John A. Regan, Dorothy V. Hull, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1283

    The victim's statements to the responding officer were admissible as part of the res g

  • Gates v. Glass

    Publication Date: 2012-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald J. Grate, Joshua B. Portnoy and Sun. S. Choy Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael L. Neff, Timothy S. Peagler The Law Offices of Michael Lawson Neff PC, and George B. Spears, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Steven G. Blackerby and Richard K. Strickland Brown, Readdick Bumgartner, Carter, Strickland & Watkins LLP, Brunswick.
    Case Number: S12G0133

    A tractor and a bush hog constituted motor vehicles, so the county waived its sovereign immunity when it purchased liability insurance coverage for the vehicles in an amount exceeding the limits pre

  • Humphrey v. Lewis

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Richard Tangum, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul E. Greenwalt III, Ann H. MacDonald and Heidi Oertle Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, Ill., for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0154

    The defendant was not entitled to habeas relief because he could not show that withheld evidence had a reasonable probability of affecting the outcome of his