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  • Noble v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-05-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sharon L. Hopkins, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Richard A. Vandever, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0705

    The defendant was arrested one week after the murder while driving the victim's vehicle and in possession of the victim's wallet, ID and credit

  • Alford v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-04-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Antonio Alford, Columbus, proceeded pro se. Julia A. F. Slater, District Attorney, Wesley A. Lambertus, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore, Amanda N. Heath, Wesley C. Turner Mercer Law School, Macon, and Leigh S. Schrope, Atlanta.
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    Case Number: S10A0062

    The habeas court erred in denying defendant's petition for relief, because the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Alabama v. Shelton, requiring knowing and intelligent waiver of counsel even in cases

  • Hicks v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-04-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sheueli C. Wang Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, John O. Williams, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Reggie A. Lampkin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0177

    The trial court did not err in refusing to charge on voluntary manslaughter, because no evidence showed that the defendant acted out of a sudden, violent and irresistible passion resulting from seri

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Reggie A. Lampkin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S10A0461

    The trial court did not err in denying defendant's motion for a change of venue, since he failed to show bias on the part of any individual juror and did not make a substantive showing of the likeli

  • Thompson v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott A. Drake, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0607

    Any error in the 2-hour time allotted for closing ar was invited, since defense counsel stated that he would use the full time, said his ar would last one hour and finished his closing a

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  • Watkins v. Anegundi

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen R. Chance, Lance D. Lourie, Robert D. Roll Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance LLP, Michael B. Terry and Kamal Ghali Bondurant, Mixson, & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Huff, Erica S. Jansen, Randolph P. Powell Jr. Huff, Powell & Bailey LLC, Kevin P. Race, Moses Kim Insley & Race LLC, Roger E. Harris, Gretchen H. Wagner Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, John A. Dickerson McClure, Ramsay, Dickerson & Escoe LLP, Toccoa, and Robert S. Lazenby Forrester & Brim, Gainesville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S10A0153

    The constitutionality of O.C.G.A. § 51-1-29.5 is controlled adversely to plaintiff by Gliemmo v. Cousineau, S09A1807 03/15/10, 10 FCDR 706, 03/

  • Mikell v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wystan B. Getz Oakhurst Law Group of Getz LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Reggie A. Lampkin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0567

    The defendant's aggravated assault conviction merged as a matter of fact into his malice murder conviction, since no evidence showed that the aggravated assault was independent of the act which cau

  • Summerlin v. placecountry-regionGeorgiaPines Community Service Bd.

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cale H. Conley Conley Griggs LLP, CityAtlanta, and C. Frederick Overby Overby Law Office PC, placeCityColumbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Jennifer L. Dalton and Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, and Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09G0980

    The General Assembly did not include a separate definition of the term employee within the GTCA, the Assembly presumably meant for courts to apply the n law meaning of that term in cases and th

  • Kaplan v. City of Sandy Springs

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell D. King King & Yaklin LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew J. Whalen III, Leigh C. Hancher The Whalen Law Group LLP, Griffin, Stephen G. Smith Jr. Brock, Clay, Calhoun & Rogers PC, Marietta, Matthew C. Welch and Steven E. Rosenberg, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09A1435

    The evidence did not show that the county expressly accepted the dedication of the 36-inch drainage pipe under the plaintiffs' driveway when it approved the revised final plat of the plaintiffs' sub

  • Stinski v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael G. Schiavone Jackson & Schiavone and Steven L. Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Gregory M. McConnell, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Richard Tangum, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09P1745

    The prosecutor's juxtaposition of photographs of the victims while living and dead did not constitute an improper arg