• Pace v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Mears and Charlotta Norby, MultiCounty Public Defenders, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Allison B. Goldberg, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Joseph L. Chambers Sr. Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Ga., Smyrna, and Jeffrey Ertel Georgia Resource Ctr., Atlanta.

    Case Number: S99P0647

    Prosecutor's unprofessional reference to defendant during closing arguments as a "misogynistic, woman hating demon of the devil" and "Satan's lap dog" did not entitle defendant to a reversal of his

  • Boyle v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anna Blitz, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0396

    The trial court properly struck a prospective juror who repeatedly stated that she could not be impartial given her negative experience with law enforc

  • Drane v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Billy I. Daughtry Jr., Elberton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Allison B. Goldberg, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Joseph L. Chambers Sr. Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Ga., Atlanta, Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr. and Michael Mears, MultiCounty Public Defender, Atlanta.

    Case Number: S99P1003

    Co-defendant's confession of his role in the crime to his cellmate was inadmissible hearsay since there was no evidence of the statement's trustworth

  • Garland v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Billy M. Grantham, Donalsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Anthony E. Paulsen III, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1653

    Defendant who knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to counsel and represented hi on the first day of trial could not claim that he ineffectively represented hi

  • In re Betts

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0168

    The Supreme Court reinstated an attorney who was disbarred in 1986 for committing forgery and theft based on his s ful rehabilitation, including his pursuit of advanced theological studies and

  • Garrett v. McDowell

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A99A2079

    Tenant's challenges to the dispossessory judgment in favor of his landlord could not be considered since he did not file a transcript as part of the appellate r

  • In re Duncan

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0187

    Attorney's petition to voluntarily surrender his license accepted based on his guilty plea to making a false material declaration to a federal grand

  • Billups v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
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    Case Number: A00A0498, A00A0628, A00A0708

    Even if co-defendant truthfully testified that he alone committed the armed robbery and aggravated assault, evidence that the other three defendants accompanied him and talked and laughed about it a

  • Goodman v. Edd's Package Store

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A00A0117

    The trial court properly denied the filing of plaintiff's pro se complaint since it did not allege any facts that would give rise to any relief in Georgia c

  • In re Tarver

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0721

    Attorney suspended for 45 days based on his admitted 45-day suspension in Alabama for conduct that would violate Standard 12 of Bar Rule 4-