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  • Riggins v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carla J. Friend, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0553

    The evidence did not support a charge on voluntary manslau since words alone cannot constitute the serious provocation which will reduce a killing from murder to manslau

  • McKenzie v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-05-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P. McFarland Jr. McFarland & Assocs. PC, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leslie C. Abernathy, Solicitor General, Inez Grant and Carlton T. Hayes, Assistant Solicitors General, Cumming, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Elizabeth V. Tanis, Sidney L. Moore III and Drew D. Dropkin Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S05A0298

    O.C.G.A. § 46-5-21 a 1-imposing a ban on indecent, lascivious, filthy and obscene telephonic communication-is unconstitutionally over

  • Ford Motor Co. v. Lawrence

    Publication Date: 2005-05-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank F. Middleton IV Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless LLP, Albany, Charles K. Reed, James B. Manley Jr., Jill C. Kuhn McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, William D. Barwick, Deborah M. Danzig and Carla W. McMillian Sutherland,, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: George W. Fryhofer III, James E. Butler Jr., Gregory R. Feagle Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer & Daugherty, Atlanta, Andrew J. Hill III Blasingame, Burch, Garrard, Bryant & Ashley, Andrew H. Marshall Begnaud & Marshall LLP, William C. Berryman Jr., Athens, and Alexander T. Galloway III Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0900

    Neither mandamus nor prohibition is an available remedy to seek review of a trial court's ruling, which is subject to appellate review, because the availability of judicial review is an adequate leg

  • Namik v. Wachovia Banks of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2005-05-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Kaufman, Stephen R. Klorfein, Jason S. Adler Kaufman, Chaiken, Miller & Klorfein LLP, and Charlotte K. Perrell Perrell & Wright LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William J. Linkous Jr., David G. Ross and Nicole J. Wade Powell Goldstein LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S04G0857

    Some evidence supported the trial court's finding that a bank breached its fiduciary duty as trustee of a revocable living trust when it failed to invest the decedent's funds in accordance with his

  • Weldon v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey H. Brickman, Acting District Attorney, Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0416

    The defendant shot the victim in the chest with a shotgun when he went to a "drug house" to trade a handgun for methamphet

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  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg Fulton County Conflict Defender Inc., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Anna E. Green, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0174

    Defendant's conviction and sentence for aggravated assault merged with his malice murder conviction for fatally stabbing his girlfriend with a

  • Stinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Mason, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Dan Trimble, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0389

    The defendant waived his right to be tried on a perfect indictment, because he did not raise the issue until his motion for new

  • Lucas v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Floyd M. Buford Jr. Buford & Buford, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Elizabeth K. Bobbitt, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0376

    Given the overwhelming evidence of the defendant's guilt, he could not show harm from his counsel's failure to request a charge on good char

  • Lucas v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Floyd M. Buford Jr. Buford & Buford, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Elizabeth K. Bobbitt, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0376

    Given the overwhelming evidence of the defendant's guilt, he could not show harm from his counsel's failure to request a charge on good char

  • Gonzalez v. Department of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2005-03-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel M. Grist Jr. Grist & Brock LLP, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bryan F. Dorsey, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Jerome Lee Hernan, Taylor & Lee LLC, Roswell, C. Lawrence Jewett Clark Goldner PC, Robert A. Falanga, Jesse E. Barrow III Falanga & Chalker, Ralph Perales Perales & Fernandez LLP, David H. Moskowitz Moskowitz & Carraway PC, Prescott L. Nottingham, Mark A. Inman and David A. Webster, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S04G1087

    The trial court was not authorized to dismiss Gonzalez's suit based on dicta in AT&T Corp. v. Sigala, 274 Ga. 137