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  • In re Armwood

    Publication Date: 2004-07-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and K. Gene Chapman State Bar of Ga., Atlanta. Rita T. Williams Tucker & Assocs., Decatur. James B. Ellington, Chairperson Review Panel, Augusta. Kim E. Anderson, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S04Y1097

    An attorney who accepted $1,500 to represent a client on misdemeanor charges, but failed to file an appearance and did not respond to the client's repeated requests for information was suspended for

  • Haugen v. Henry County

    Publication Date: 2004-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James L. Haugen, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael A. O'Quinn and Donald A. Cronin Jr. O'Quinn & Cronin, McDonough, for appellees.
    Case Number: S03A1444

    Where the actual cost exceeds the estimated cost of any unfinished pr SPLOST revenue collected in excess of the estimated cost may be used to complete that pr

  • State v. Marlowe

    Publication Date: 2003-12-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Jeffrey L. Foster, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for the state. John T. Strauss, Monroe, for Marlowe and Pearson.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S03G0351; S03G0564

    A defendant who commits multiple crimes during the course of a continuous crime spree may be convicted once for possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime as to every individual victim

  • Clyde v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-08-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellis R. Garnett, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles M. Ferguson, District Attorney, Cuthbert, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0054

    The evidence was insufficient to show the defendant's guilt as either a party to the crimes or a conspi

  • Rabun County v. Georgia Transmission Corp.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: V. Robert Denham Jr., Chandler P. Thompson Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP, Atlanta, and L. Allyn Stockton Jr. Stockton & Stockton LLC, Clayton, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Fred D. Bentley Jr., Debra H. Bernes Bentley, Bentley & Bentley, Marietta, and Linton K. Crawford Jr., Clarkesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1374

    A county ordinance imposing a 3-year moratorium on construction of high voltage lines was void since it unconstitutionally interfered with an electric membership corporation's power of eminent d

  • Britt v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Victor L. Britt, Waycross, proceeded pro se. Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A0873

    The trial court's failure to inform defendant of his additional rights under Uniform Superior Court Rule 33.8 did not render his guilty plea constitutionally in

  • Usry v. Farr

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wendell E. Johnston Jr. and William J. Williams Johnston, Wilkin & Williams, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Carl H. Hodges and Timothy K. King Carl H. Hodges & Assocs., Jonesboro, for appellees.
    Case Number: S01A0784

    Under the terms of the testator's will, the remainder interest which he left to his grandchildren vested at time of the testator's death and not at the death of his last surviving life t

  • State v. Colack a/k/a Culack

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald N. Blaney Jr., Solicitor General, Emilien O. Loiselle Jr. and Jeffrey P. Kwiatkowski, Assistant Solicitors, for appellant.
    for defendant: David S. Lipscomb, Duluth, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1898

    Grant of habeas relief to resident alien affirmed without op

  • Fortson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Millsaps, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan A. Cook, District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0196

    Defendant had a constit l right to appointed counsel at his hearing to withdraw his guilty plea because a plea withdrawal proceeding is a critical stage of a defendant's prosec

  • Peek v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monte K. Davis and George A. Stein, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor General, and Kimberly V. Gross, Assistant Solicitor General, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99G0592

    Computer printout of hospital employee's "education cumulative report" was insufficient under O.C.G.A. § 40-6-392 to prove that employee was a phlebotomist authorized to draw defendant's blood for b