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  • Johnston v. Johnston

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John B. Degonia Jr., Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tiffany J. Ellenberg, Madison, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0134

    The evidence presumably supported the trial court's interpretation of the parties' divorce decree to clarify that marital meant the parties' mobile

  • Mungin v. St. Lawrence

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Mungin, Savannah, proceeded pro se. R. Jonathan Hart and Emily E. Garrard, Savannah, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S07A0193

    The state's alleged failure to comply with the defendant's statutory speedy trial demand did not constitute an exception to the rule that a defendant cannot predicate pretrial habeas relied upon a c

  • Hicks v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-02-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jemarco Hicks, Oglethorpe, proceeded pro se. Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S07A0224

    The defendant could not show that his defense counsel was deficient for failing to file a meritless a

  • Folsom v. Rowell

    Publication Date: 2007-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey W. Duncan and Thomas M. Rego, Tallapoosa, for Folsom. Daniel B. Greenfield, Bremen, for Smith.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S06A1980; S06A1981

    Once the life tenant's sister fulfilled the will's condition precedent of providing requisite care for the life tenant, the sister became an identifiable person, who would take possession when the l

  • Berryhill v. Georgia Community Support and Solutions Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Torin D. Togut, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard T. Witterman Jr. The Witterman Law Firm PC, Roswell, for appellees. Amicus appellants: Elizabeth L. Littrell, Margaret F. Garrett American Civil Liberties Union and Gerald R. Weber Jr., Atlanta.
    Case Number: S06G0038

    The anti-SLAPP statutes does not encompass all statements, which touch upon matters of public concern, but is limited to statements that come within the definition found in § 9-11-1

  • Richards v. Richards

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph R. Manning, Robert C. Threlkeld and Leslie A. Allen Morris, Manning & Martin LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Floyd E. Propst III Caldwell & Watson LLP0, John C. Mayoue Warner, Mayoue, Bates & Nolen PC, L. Lamar Mixson, Lisa R. Strauss Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP and Susan A. Chiapetta, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A1269

    The plaintiff lacked standing to pursue an individual claim for removal of the trustee of the inter vivos trust, which her ex-husband established for their children's benefit, since the plaintiff wa

  • Greer v. Thompson

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Mark A. Gilbert, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James N. Finkelstein, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1431

    The trial court did not improperly express an opinion when it read two notes from the jury and stated that someone offered a bribe on the defendant's b

  • Woodruff v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven E. Phillips, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1717

    The trial court did not err in failing to give the dant's requested instruction on voluntary manslaughter as a lesser offense to murder, since the purported provocation-the shooting death of th

  • Blum v. Schrader

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emmet J. Bondurant, David G. H. Brackett, James J. Carter Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, and Irwin W. Stolz Jr. Wilburn, Lewis & Stolz LLP, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Norman J. Slawsky Jacobs, Slawsky & Barnett, Kirby G. Atkinson Ekonomou, Atkinson & Lambros LLC, Atlanta, Jane A. Range Hulsey, Oliver & Mahar LLP, William H. Blalock Jr. Stewart, Melvin & Frost LLP, Gainesville, Michael C. Pruett Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, William C. Berryman Jr., Athens, Billy I. Daughtry Jr., Elberton, and Angela E. Davis Jarrard & Davis LLP, Cumming, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A1766

    The Georgia Constitution requires the General Assembly to reapportion itself at least once after each census, if necessary, but does not limit the exercise of that power to a once a d

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1762

    The trial court did not err in overruling the defendant's objection to the eyewitness's testimony that she did not believe the defendant acted in self-defense, since the witness testified based on