• Strunk v. Strunk

    Publication Date: 2013-11-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rosemary S. Armstrong Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas J. Davis Belli, Weil, Grozbean & Davis LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13A1217

    The trial court erred in granting the father a $200 travel deviation without entering the required written findings in his action for a downward modification of child su

  • Roesser v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Wesley C. Ross, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S12G1846

    The doctrine of collateral estoppel prohibited the defendant's retrial for voluntary manslau

  • Bester v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy W. Copeland Copeland & Haugabrook, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard L. Perryman III, District Attorney, Nashville, Robert A. Rogers, Assistant District Attorney, Adel, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine L. Iannuzzi, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13A1192

    Defendant's conviction for aggravated assault should have merged into his malice murder conviction, since no evidence showed that the victim suffered a non-fatal injury followed by a deliberate inte

  • Morris v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-11-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen R. Scarborough, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Lenny I. Krick, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13A1020

    The evidence supported the defendant's conviction for a gang-related m

  • Hertz v. Bennett

    Publication Date: 2013-11-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Chad R. Corlee and Berrien L. Sutton, Homerville, for appellee. Amicus Appellee: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Jeffrey L. Milsteen, Chief Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Joseph J. Drolet, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Nels S. D. Peterson, and Britt C. Grant Attorney General's Office, Atlanta.

    Case Number: S13A1288

    The mandamus plaintiff's 1994 nolo contendere plea to five felony charges in Florida made him ineligible for a weapons carry license pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 16-1

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  • Bates v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Arthur C. Walton, Assistant District Attorney Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13A1095

    The defendant lost his temper and stabbed his next-door neighbor to death with a knife after she refused to lend him money, and he then took approximately $600 from her w

  • National City Mortg. Co. v. Tidwell

    Publication Date: 2013-10-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stefanie H. Jackman, Christopher J. Willis, Sarah T. Reise Ballard Spahr LLP, Atlanta, George H. Carley Carley, Gregory & Gregory, Decatur, Hardy Gregory Jr., Antoinette D. Gregory Carley, Gregory & Gregory, Cordele, and Gary C. Tepper Ballard Spahr LLP, Washington, District of Columbia, for appellant.
    for defendant: James W. Davis James W. Davis & Associates, and Edward S. Sell III Sell & Melton LLP, Macon, for appellees.

    Case Number: S12G2011

    Under both federal and state law, the merger of two banks does not affect any claim or action pending by or against them, since, when cor ons merge, state law provides that the title to each co

  • Hankla v. Postell

    Publication Date: 2013-10-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randolph P. Powell Jr. Huff, Powell & Bailey LLC, Atlanta, Wade H. Coleman, Alphonso A. Howell IV, and Gregory T. Talley Coleman Talley LLP, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Laura M. Shamp, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: S12G1964

    The trial court reversibly erred in allowing a medical doctor to testify as an expert witness as to the standard of care for a n idwife when the doctor had not supervised, taught or instructed

  • State v. Hudson

    Publication Date: 2013-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, and Lindsay H. Burton, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark A. Begnaud, Atlanta, and H. Bradford Morris Jr. Public Defender's Office, Gainesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13G0311

    The "aggregate approach" is a more precise manner of analyzing the relative severity of a defendant's new sentence, thus the Supreme Court overruled Anthony v. Hopper, 235 Ga. 336 1975, to the exte

  • Dennis v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-09-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy L. Eidson, Cordele, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, Cordele, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Rochelle W. Gordon, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13A0758

    The defendant's admission that he and his brother removed both victims from the first victim's vehicle, bound them with electrical ties and duct tape, and then placed the first victim in the back se