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  • Lee v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-06-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William F. Rucker, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0538

    Defense counsel was not deficient for failing to make a meritless objection to the admission of the defendant's statement to a witness just before he shot the victim, since the statement was admiss

  • Bell v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael L. Edwards, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Laura D. Dyes, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0550

    An attorney, whom the defendant's mother retained and who acted on his own without consulting with the defendant, did not have the power to invoke the defendant's personal r

  • Ward v. Morgan

    Publication Date: 2006-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Milton F. Gardner Jr. Gardner & Gardner, Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shane M. Geeter, Milledgeville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0606

    The defendant failed to show that he established title to certain real property by adverse possession, since he took no action to oust his co-tenants, he d retain exclusive possession and he

  • Waters v. Waters

    Publication Date: 2006-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles W. Lane, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert G. Wellon, Atlanta, and Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06F0071

    The trial court properly classified the parties' property as martial and non-marital a

  • Dukes v. Board of Trustees for the Police Officers Pension Fund

    Publication Date: 2006-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: T. Joshua Archer, Michael J. Bowers and David G. Michell Balch & Bingham LLP, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Pamela F. Everett, Debra G. Alford and Robert N. Godfrey City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A0155

    Because the pension fund board did not have the legal authority to disburse retirement benefits based on prior service, the plaintiff cannot avail himself of the doctrine of estoppel in seeking to c

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  • Paschal v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry M. Daniel, Waynesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0474

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing a crime lab analyst to testify about DNA test results on blood from a washcloth, which officers found at the murder scene, before other state

  • Fulton County v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Overtis H. Brantley, Willie J. Lovett Jr., Rory K. Starkey, Marina K. Duncan and Nicolle G. Holt, Fulton County Attorneys, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Marc Goncher, Assistant City Attorney, Lisa F. Harper, Otto F. Feil III, Chorey, Taylor & Feil PC, Douglas A. Henderson, Troutman Sanders LLP, Robert D. Mowrey, David M. Meezan Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, and Robert C. Norman Jr. Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, for appellees. Amicus appellee: Carlton L. Kell Brock, Clay & Calhoun PC, Marietta, and David Biderman National Solid Wastes Management Assoc., Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S06A0049

    O.C.G.A. § 36-2-26 a unconstitutionally impairs the free flow of interstate commerce by giving the county where a landfill sits the authority to veto the importation of solid

  • Amend v. 485 Properties

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce P. Brown and Thuy N. Vu McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jill Warner and Peter B. Glass Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05Q1462

    Real estate brokers must prove that they are the procuring cause of a sale in order to recover for the value of their services in quantum m

  • Hill v. Watkins

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Stivarius Jr. and Brenton S. Bean Epstein, Becker & Green PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harlan S. Miller III Miller, Billips & Ates PC, Evan L. Kaine Kaine & Jones, Atlanta, and Rolf A. Jones, Jonesboro, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A2107

    Clayton county sheriff's office employees are afforded to the due process and other protections of the Clayton county Civil Service System Act, Ga. L. 1994 p.

  • Murrell v. Ricks

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brad Gardner and Dwight L. Thomas, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0004

    Defense counsel was not deficient for failing to contest the receipt of information that the victim tested positive for a venereal disease 13 months after the crimes were committed, failing to ask f