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  • Wallace v. Bock

    Publication Date: 2005-10-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wayne S. Tartline, Douglas J. Davis Belli, Weil, Grozbean & Davis LLP, Atlanta, and Kyle G. A. Wallace, Harrison, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ted Marcus, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05G1101

    The Court of Appeals erred in relying on the merger doctrine to hold that the parties' subsequent escrow agreement extinguished the plaintiff's claim against the defendant for breach of a contract t

  • Rochefort v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Greco, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman and C. Lance Cross, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1413

    O.C.G.A. § 16-13-30.3 prohibits possession of more than 300 individual units of any product containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine and it reasonably defines legal "personal use

  • Phillips v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg Fulton County Conflict Defender Inc., 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, Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1553

    The defendant intentionally shot the victim in the back, while high on

  • Quillian v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1302

    The trial court did not err in excluding evidence of one victim's prior violent acts, since the defendant failed to establish a prima facie case of justific

  • Baisden v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry J. Baisden, Marianna, Fla., proceeded pro se. Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S05A1382

    The record did not support a finding that the trial court advised the defendant of his rights under Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 1969, when he entered his guilty

  • Scandrett v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Cooper Jr. Public Defender's Office, 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 Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1229

    Although the 18-month cumulative delay in the defendant's murder prosecution was presumptively prejudicial, only nine months of that delay at most was unexplained and attributable to the state's all

  • Walker v. Estate of Mays

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade M. Crumbley Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: John E. Robinson and Gregory H. Blazer McLarty, Robinson & Van Voorhies LLP, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05G0988, S05A1383

    Appellants must bring appeals in domestic relations cases by application for discretionary appeal as set forth in O.C.G.A. § 5

  • Henry v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Robinson III Robinson & Assocs., Atlanta, and Dakeer A. Farrar, Elmont, N.Y., for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0985

    The defendant fatally stabbed his estranged wife's comp

  • Martin v. Barrett

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Rowe III, Ellijay, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, and James J. Phillips Department of Law, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael S. Katz, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0856

    Readily available psychiatric records showed that the defendant suffered from a form of Bipolar I Disorder, which includes psychotic episodes of auditory and visual hallucina

  • Shorter College v. Baptist Convention of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2005-07-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce P. Brown, Thomas B. Bosch McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, and David F. Guldenschuh Smith, Shaw & Maddox LLP, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Walter H. Bush Jr., Thomas O. Duvall Jr., Jason E. Bring, Andrew B. Flake Arnall, Golden & Gregory LLP, Richard L. Robbins, and Valerie S. Sanders Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus appellant: J. Anderson Davis Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis LLP, Rome, Roy E. Barnes The Barnes Law Group LLC, Marietta, Scott Colley, Mount Berry, and A. Mitchell Powell Jr. Glover & Davis PA, Newnan.
    Case Number: S04G1291

    A non-profit college could not dissolve without approval of its only m