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  • State v. Perkins

    Publication Date: 2003-05-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ralph M. Hinman III, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02G1850

    The defendant's conviction in probate court on his guilty plea to misdemeanor reckless driving did not bar his prosecution for a charge of felony vehicular homicide arising out of the same e

  • Coates v. State Bar of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2003-05-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Coates, Helena, proceeded pro se. Robert E. McCormack, Deputy General Counsel State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S03A0679

    The Supreme Court has exclusive jurisdiction over challenges involving the Georgia Stat

  • Lowe v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry R. Pruden, Loganville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Alan A. Cook, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Jeffrey L. Foster, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0511

    The defendant was not entitled to a grant of her motion in arrest of judgment where she could not admit the facts alleged in her felony murder indictment and still be inn

  • Reasor v. Peoples Financial Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-05-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry R. Stringfellow Bridgers, Stringfellow, Bland & Peters, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alfred D. Fears, Kenneth G. Lawrence and Douglas R. Ballard Jr. The Fears Firm PC,Jackson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0370

    The plaintiff's use of certain property was consistent with his status as a beneficiary of the trust which held the property and his continued possession of the property after the trust sold it to d

  • McCutchen v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cathy M. Alterman Alterman & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, for appellee. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Timothy B. Lumpkin, Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jill M. Zubler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S03A0272

    Defense counsel's decision not to consider the exculpatory testimony of a co-indictee with a prior murder conviction was strategic since the co-indictee had nothing to lose by trying to exculpate hi

  • Anderson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-04-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarina J. Woods, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Anne E. Green, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jennifer S. Gill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0297

    The trial court acted within its discretion in refusing to strike for cause a prospective juror who expressed some doubt as to whether he could be fair, but did not express a fixed opinion regardin

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-04-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edwin J. Wilson, Snellville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Rose L. Wing, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Ruth M. Pawlak, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0249

    Defendant was not entitled to a mistrial based on a witness's emotional outburst where the witness was not hysterical and did not make any prejudicial com

  • Grier v. Peed

    Publication Date: 2003-04-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry L. Grier, Trion, proceeded pro se. F. Gates Peed, John R. Turner, Statesboro, William E. Woodrum Jr., Millen, and Rebecca S. Mick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S03A0021

    Defendant's mandamus action against three superior court judges seeking to compel them to enter orders on his pro se motions was moot since the appellees had ruled upon every motion he referenced in

  • Cobb County v. Georgia Transmission Corp.

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph B. Atkins and Dorothy H. Bishop Cobb County Attorney's Office, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James A. Orr and Cheryl L. Haas-Goldstein Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0664

    A 7-month moratorium on the construction of above-ground power lines violated the home rule and uniformity provisions of the 1983 Georgia Constit

  • Leone Hall Price Found. v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2003-03-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay D. Bennett, James W. Williams and Nowell D. Berreth Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Michael Treadaway, Donald L. Mize, Ray B. Gray Jr., C. Fred Reeves, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Grace E. Lewis, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Randall A. Constantine Mazursky & Dunaway LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0081

    A foundation created by a private charitable trust had the right to oppose termination of the trust in contravention of the settlor's i