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  • McKinney v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin G. Hilliard, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Thomas M. Cerbone, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1336

    The Sixth Amendment right to assistance of counsel is offense specific and cannot be invoked once for all future prosecu

  • Robinson v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby L. Giddens Giddens, Davidson & Mitchell PC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert L. Simmons Simmons & Simmons, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A0861

    Some evidence authorized the jury to find that the first appellee found a quitclaim deed to her father's home, which named the appellant as the grantee, in a safe deposit box over which the decedent

  • Inman v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: August F. Siemon III, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Catherine H. Helms, District Attorney, Kimberly L. Whiddon District Attorney's Office, Nashville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0663

    A witness identified the defendant as the man driving the victim's vehicle shortly after she was killed and $1,700 in restaurant proceeds were taken from a fast food restaurant and the defendant tal

  • Lynch v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer R. Burns, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Ann M. Elmore, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1040

    The investigator's impermissible hearsay testimony was cumulative of other, properly admitted evi

  • Georgia Forestry Commission v. Canady

    Publication Date: 2006-08-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas G. Whatley Jr. Howard & Whatley, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Billy N. Jones, G. Brinson Williams Jr. Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, Joseph M. Murphey Crim & Bassler, Matthew P. Stone and Sun S. Choy Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05G2002

    The exception of the waiver of sovereign immunity in O.C.G.A. § 50-21-24 6 authorizes the application of sovereign immunity to the making of policy decisions by state employees and officers, includi

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  • Amin v. Guruom Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-08-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin A. Shelton and Holly P. Cole Stack & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . F. Edwin Hallman Jr. and Harry K. Buttermore III Decker, Hallman, Barber & Briggs, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0307

    After execution of deed containing mistaken description, a grantor may seek reformation against a grantee of the grantor's grantee who took under same mistake as long as the grantee does not extend

  • Culmer v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-08-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven E. Phillips Public Defender's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Stephany J. Luttrell, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Laura D. Dyes, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0242

    The trial court did not err in admitting a witness's hearsay testimony about prior difficulties between the defendant and the victim under the necessity exception to hearsay

  • Baker v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-08-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. David Tucker, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sandra K. Guest, Solicitor General, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0500

    O.C.G.A. § 16-5-60 b gives a person fair notice that it prohibits leaving one's infant and toddler children unsupervised on the upper floor of a 2-story home that is not equipped with any device to

  • Perdue v. O'Kelley

    Publication Date: 2006-07-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Stephen E. Ritter, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Charles C. Stebbins III Warlick, Tritt & Stebbins LLP, Augusta, and Glen Lavy Alliance Defense Fund, Scottsdale, Ariz., for appellant.
    for defendant: John E. Stephenson Jr., Jeffrey J. Swart Alston & Bird LLP, Gerald R. Weber Jr., Elizabeth L. Littrell American Civil Liberties Union, and Jack H. Senterfitt Lambda Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus appellee: Scott C. Titshaw Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Miles J. Alexander, Alexander S. Clay, Michael W. Tyler and Jill Warner Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta. Amicus appellant: Brent M. Estes Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, Anita L. Staver, Erik W. Stanley, Rena M. Lindvaldsen and David M. Corry, Lynchburg, Va.
    Case Number: S06A1574

    Art. 1, Sec. 4, Par. 1 of the Georgia Constitution of 1983-which defines the recognition of marriage as only the union of man and woman and states that no union between persons of the same sex shall

  • Bellemead LLC v. Stoker

    Publication Date: 2006-07-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert G. Brazier, Steven G. Hall and Seaton D. Purdom Gambrell & Stolz LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Walter E. Harrington Jr., Shirley R. Watson, Warner Robins, William H. Larsen, John T. McGoldrick Jr., Michael N. White and Michael M. Smith Martin, Snow, Grant & Napier LLP, Macon, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05G1352

    The test for determining if a statement is slander per se is whether it is recognizable as injurious on its face and if, on its face, it casts aspersions on the plaintiff's reputation, because of th