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  • Shazer v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ernie M. Sheffield, Colquitt, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, Bainbridge, Robert R. Auman, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Cairo, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0035

    Evidence that defendant threatened to kill his wife if she left him, that the wife died from a gunshot wound inflicted with a pistol held against her chest and that the gun could not have fired acci

  • Carter v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathy S. Palmer, Swainsboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, William S. Askew, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1603

    Although the trial court should have charged on impeachment by conviction since a state witness admitted to his prior felony convictions without objection, that error was harmless given the other e

  • In re Clinton

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0426

    Attorney who was disbarred in Alabama is suspended in a until he is reinstated in Alabama or until, three years after his suspension, he applies for and is reinstated to the practice of law in

  • In re P.H.M.T.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00A0716

    Evidence that the applicant engaged in the unauthorized practice of law and gave incorrect answers on his application supported the denial of his application for certification of fitness to practic

  • In re Mendelson

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0462

    Attorney's petition to voluntarily surrender his license accepted based on his failure to promptly disburse clients' settlement funds or provide them with an accou

  • In re Nolan

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S99Y1809, S99Y1810, S99Y1811

    Attorney disbarred for appearing in a criminal case without informing the trial court that his license was susp

  • In re R.M.C.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00A0711

    Bar applicant who did not make a consistent effort to pay defaulted student loans or other outstanding debts and who claimed indigence in a civil suit despite having received an income was unfit for

  • Merneigh v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S99A1580

    After the trial court revoked defendant's probated sentence for his burglary conviction, it could not revoke the probation he received at the same time for his theft conviction since it did not limi

  • In re Brown Jr.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0463

    Attorney suspended for two years running from Sept. 1, 1998, based on his admitted conversion of client funds to his ow

  • Fulton County Bd. of Tax Assessors v. Boyajian

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
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    Case Number: S99A1487, S99X1488

    County board of tax assessors had no authority to refuse certification of taxpayer's appeal to the superior court on the grounds that it was unt