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  • Ramsey v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elaine T. McGruder, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, David E. Langford, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1447

    Since defendant's statements to the police officer who arrived at the crime scene were spontaneous, they were admissible even though he did not receive Miranda war

  • Hightower v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wilbur T. Gamble III Colquitt & Gamble LLP, Dawson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles M. Ferguson, District Attorney, Cuthbert, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wesley S. Wood, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0087

    Defendant's statements during several interviews at the police station before he was given Miranda rights were admissible since he was not in custody at the time and his statements were not inculp

  • Stokes v. Edwards

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. King, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Rebecca S. Mick and Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1816

    Plaintiff could not file a writ of prohibition challenging superior court's decision reversing the dismissal of petition to remove him from school board, since court had jurisdiction over that admin

  • Hackbart v. Hackbart

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James R. Westbury Jr. Power & Westbury LLP, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eloise W. Newhard Adams House, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1310

    The trial court should not have awarded child support against father since mother's divorce petition did not seek child support and father did not answer the petition or appear at the he

  • Burnette v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric A. Ballinger Conrad & Abernathy, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roger Queen, District Attorney, and William B. Britt, Assistant District Attorney, Ellijay, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2504, A99A2505

    Evidence that the state did not mail notice of trial to defendant's last known address as alleged in the indictment did not require his acquittal on bail jumping charges since defendant's attorney g

  • Parker v. Clary Lakes Recreation Ass'n Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Sparks and John B. Austin Austin & Sparks PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William A. Dinges Temple, Strickland, Counts & Dinges, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0099

    Evidence that homeowners' association would suffer greater harm if it could not increase assessments than plaintiff would suffer if assessments were increased supported denial of his request to enjo

  • Robinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jana M. Whaley, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0029

    Since state crime lab expert could not say what effect cocaine had on the murder victim, his testimony that the victim consumed cocaine and a detective's testimony that the victim had cocaine in his

  • Shazer v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ernie M. Sheffield, Colquitt, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, Bainbridge, Robert R. Auman, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Cairo, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0035

    Evidence that defendant threatened to kill his wife if she left him, that the wife died from a gunshot wound inflicted with a pistol held against her chest and that the gun could not have fired acci

  • Carter v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathy S. Palmer, Swainsboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, William S. Askew, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1603

    Although the trial court should have charged on impeachment by conviction since a state witness admitted to his prior felony convictions without objection, that error was harmless given the other e

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clyde M. Urquhart, Woodbine, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0123

    Defendant could be sentenced as a recidivist on his Georgia armed robbery conviction since his previous Florida convictions involved his robbing two victims while he held a shotgun and were serious