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  • Sherrell v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steve Sherrell, Reidsville, proceeded pro se. Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A1590

    Defendant and his co-indictees used firearms to steal automobiles from their owners and shot one of the victims to

  • Head v. Ferrell

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Beth A. Burton, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for Head. Daniel Beck, Cambridge, Mass., Mark E. Olive, Tallahassee, Fla., for Ferrell. Amicus appellant: Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A0840, S01X0842

    Defendant failed to proved that he was mentally retarded where his IQ tests registered 80 and 76 prior to his eighteenth birthday, his own expert concluded that he had an I.Q. of 87 and he scored a

  • Harper v. Harper

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alton M. Adams, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Janney E. Sanders Clifton, Sanders & Smith PA, Toccoa, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0967

    The caveator failed to rebut evidence that the testator acted of his own free will when he bequeathed the majority of his estate to the propounder of the will who was only one of his three surviving

  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randolph G. Rich Rich & Smith, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Phil Wiley, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Niria D. Baggett, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1236

    Defendant used a knife to stab the victim multiple

  • Strong v. O'Neal

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raphael Kendrick, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Karla Y. Vogel Vogel Law Office, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1316

    The probate court properly found that the testator intended to divide his e between two named beneficiaries, even though his will that each would receive 100 percent of his e

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  • Riley v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phyllis V. Harris, Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, John F. McClellan Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Rome, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1094

    Defendant was not entitled to a charge on self defense because the evidence showed that she shot the unarmed victim in the back of the

  • Hufstetler v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Donald Patten Jr., Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, James L. Wright III, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1148

    The jury was entitled to reject defendant's battered spouse defense because the evidence showed that he had a history of assaulting his wife and that he shot her in a jealous rage two days before th

  • Adams v. Georgia Dep't of Corrections

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emmet J. Bondurant, Michael B. Terry, Jane E. Fahey Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore LLP, C. B. Rogers Rogers & Hardin, John A. Chandler Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Ralph I. Knowles Jr. Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield, Knowles & Devine and Miles J. Alexander Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Christopher S. Brasher and James J. Phillips, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S01A1295

    Petitioners lacked standing to pursue a mandamus action to prohibit the use of the electric chair as Georgia's means of exec

  • Almond v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles E. Day, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1185

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting digital photographs after the state authenticated them as fair and acc

  • State v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald C. Evans Jr. Vaughan & Evans, Cartersville, for appellee. Amicus appellants: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, Albany, and Joseph F. Burford, Smyrna.
    Case Number: S01A1028

    Defendant's f murder prosecution was not barred by the running of the statute of limitation on the underlying f