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  • Monroe v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Waldrop Gentry & Waldrop, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard R. Read, District Attorney, Nancy N. Bills, Assistant District Attorney, Conyers, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1771

    Evidence that the defendant threatened to kill the victim after she ended their 20-year relationship and that the bloodstains on his jacket matched her DNA was so overwhelming that it overcame the t

  • Grant v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth Lane, Macon, and James C. Bonner Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles H. Weston, District Attorney, Howard Z. Simms, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, and Wayne G. Tillis, Assistant District Attorney, Fort Valley, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99G1267

    The trial court should have granted the defendant's motion for a new trial since the jury in his criminal case was never swo

  • Elite Realty Servs. Inc. v. City of Auburn

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John E. Stell Jr. Russell, Stell, Smith & McLocklin PC, Winder, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert J. Wilson Webb, Tanner & Powell LLP, Lawrenceville, and Currie M. Mingledorff II Russell & Mingledorff PA, Winder, for appellees.
    Case Number: S99A1598

    The developer's plan to remodel a house that it moved to a subdivision lot did not comply with a restrictive covenant that permitted only "site built"

  • Hester v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John P. Sugrue, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, David T. Lock, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1654

    Given the overwhelming evidence that the defendant killed the victim, wrapped his body in bags and duct tape and dumped it in the woods, any error in the trial court's failure to sequester the victi

  • Hedquist v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rosemary S. Armstrong, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Taylor W. Jones, Linda R. Greer Jones, Copeland, Lefkowitz & Greer, Richard H. Sinkfield, Brett A. Rogers and Paul W. Stivers Rogers & Hardin, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S99G0754

    The plaintiff's voluntary dismissal with prejudice of the defendant's employee did not bar its respondeat superior claim against the defendant since the dismissal was not an adjudication on the meri

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd W. Walker, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Fayetteville, Randall K. Coggin, Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1283

    The defendant's aggravated battery conviction merged into his malice murder conviction since both crimes required the state to prove that the defendant maliciously shot the victim in the forehead wi

  • Outdoor Advertising Ass'n of Ga. Inc. v. Garden Club of Ga. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
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    Case Number: S99A1567, S99X1568

    The fact that former attorney general represented the state transportation department in plaintiff's first suit against it did not disqualify him from representing plaintiff in second suit, since he

  • Bellamy v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
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    Case Number: S99A1671

    Defendant was not entitled to a charge on involuntary manslaughter since the evidence showed he either committed murder or no crime a

  • In re Adams

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0717

    Attorney's voluntary surrender of his license to practice law accepted based on his guilty plea in federal court to a f

  • In re Pike

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0802

    Attorney suspended for one year for agreeing to represent two clients and then abandoning their respective construction defect and personal injury