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  • In re Bates

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0766

    Attorney's petition to voluntarily surrender her license accepted based on her admitted failure to pursue divorce and child support actions, and her closing her practice without notifying her client

  • Parks v. McClung

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert E. Toone Jr. and Stephen B. Bright Southern Ctr. for Human Rights, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . George R. Ellis Jr. Ellis, Easterlin, Peagler, Gatewood & Skipper, Americus, for appellee. Amicus appellants: Mary W. Whiteman Whiteman & Whiteman, Decatur, Michael B. Shapiro and James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S99A0712

    The trial court did not have to inform defendants of the dangers of proceeding pro se before they entered their guilty pleas without the assistance of co

  • Wilson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John H. Bradley Waddell, Emerson & Buice and Jon P. Carr, Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fredric D. Bright, District Attorney, Gray, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Patricia B. A. Burton, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Joseph L. Chambers Sr. Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Ga., Smyrna, Jeffrey Ertel Georgia Resource Ctr. and Michael Mears, MultiCounty Public Defender, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S99P0651

    Prospective juror who was formerly a defense attorney and stated that 99.9 percent of all defendants are guilty did not have to be removed for cause since he stated he believed he could render a fai

  • Brissey v. Ellison

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
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    Case Number: S99A1827

    Plaintiff had no standing under O.C.G.A. § 9-6-24 to compel the superior court clerk to cancel all notices of federal tax liens, since there was no public duty involved and a writ of mandamus is not

  • In re Thigpen

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0185, S00Y0240

    Attorney suspended indefinitely for abandoning clients' cases and failing to return their retainers and files as a result of his severe depre

  • In re J.L.A.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Case Number: S00A0242

    Florida attorney is ineligible for sit for the Georgia Attorney's Examination, since the Florida Supreme Court injunction barring him from soliciting business from Valujet accident victims' families

  • Shields v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph A. Homans Fox, Chandler, Homans, Hicks & McKinnon, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, Margaret Schnee-Gregory, Deputy District Attorney, Gainesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1774

    Since there was no evidence that the defendant and the victim struggled or otherwise indicated that defendant shot herself in self-defense, evidence of the victim's prior violent acts was inadmis

  • Burt v. Skrzyniarz

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth P. Johnson and David H. Johnson McCorkle, Pedigo & Johnson LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: John M. Cullum, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1824

    The trial court properly charged the jury that plaintiff had to present clear and convincing evidence to rebut the presumption that the parties had equal shares in their property as tenants in c

  • 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