• Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee W. Fitzpatrick, Kennesaw, for appellant.
    for defendant: David McDade, District Attorney, James A. Dooley, Emily K. Richardson, Assistant District Attorneys, Douglasville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Dana E. Weinberger, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S12A1387

    The defendant's statements to police, his actions before and after the crimes, and his girlfriend's testimony that he asked her to lie about his whereabouts corroborated the testimony of his accom

  • Youmans v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stuart H. Patray and Robert L. Persse Public Defender's Office, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, and Keith A. McIntyre, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: S12A1562

    The lack of a definition for the term sexually violent offense did not render OCGA § 42-1-12 e 4 unconstitutionally

  • Doyle v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard M. Darden Darden Law Firm, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry Chisolm, District Attorney, Thomas M. Cerbone, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Dana E. Weinberger, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S12A1036

    The defendant's 14-year-old brother identified him as the gunman, who shot through a door at a return-to-college party in Savannah four times, wounding three victims, one of them fa

  • Newman v. Newman

    Publication Date: 2012-10-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore S. Eittreim Mayoue Gray Eittreim PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis G. Collard Kessler, Schwarz & Solomiany PC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S12F1549

    Addition of certain handwritten language to a 20-page type-written prenuptial ent did not render the contract an unenforceable ent to

  • American Gen. Fin. Servs. v. Jape

    Publication Date: 2012-10-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashley F. Cummings, Charlotte M. Ritz, and Rhani M. Lott Hunton & Williams LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Longino The Longino Law Firm LLC, Canton, for appellee.

    Case Number: S12G0463

    An order denying a motion to compel arbitration is not directly appea

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  • Hastings v. Hastings

    Publication Date: 2012-10-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Todd A. Harding Maddox & Harding LLC, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nichole Hastings, Eatonton, proceeded pro se.

    Case Number: S12F0873

    The trial court's determination that splitting siblings would cause emotional harm to both children sufficiently overcame the statutory presumption in favor father with respect to the custody

  • Andersen v. Farrington

    Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
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    Case Number: S12A0977

    The trial court did not err by restricting the wife's visit rights until the wife completed a psychological evalu

  • Adkins v. Cobb County

    Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell L. Adkins Jr. Adkins & Assocs., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Dana L. Jackel and Christopher L. Phillips Jackel & Phillips PC, Marietta, for appellee. Amicus Appellee: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Denise E. Whiting-Pack, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Mary J. L. Volkert, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.

    Case Number: S12A0848

    The requirement in O.C.G.A. § 32-3-11 for the trial court to set a hearing on a condemnor's motion to set aside or vacate a declaration of taking within 60 days after the filing of the declaration i

  • Wilkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Justin J. Wyatt, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Jesse D. Evans, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Anna G. Cross, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine L. Iannuzzi, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S12A0658

    The state's proffered reasons for its three peremptory strikes used against African-American prospective jurors were race-neutral and not pre-te

  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Deborah D. Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine R. Thrower, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S12A1182

    Trial counsel's strategy in not objecting to hearsay statements from an eyewitness and the victim's brother was reasonable under the circumst