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  • Brooks v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Willie T. Yancey II, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1360

    Juvenile defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his rights before giving a statement to police, since his adult sister accompanied him, he was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol and h

  • Massey v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ben B. Mills Jr. Mills & Chasteen PC, Fitzgerald, for appellant.
    for defendant: John C. Pridgen, District Attorney, Cordele, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1450

    Evidence that defendant's wife confronted him and his girlfriend at a motel three weeks before the wife's murder was admissible to show defendant's motive for killin

  • Caf Erotica Inc. v. Peach County

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Maddox Jr. Thomas E. Maddox Jr. PC, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan S. Cole and Charles E. Cox Jr. Cole & Cox, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1256

    Since county attorney had no power to vote on county ordinance banning alcohol sales at adult entertainment businesses, his statement that the county intended to eliminate nude dancing did not show

  • Kinney v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William H. Newton III, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, Rome, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1424

    Evidence that defendant and his accomplices bludgeoned and stabbed the victim in order to take her money was sufficient proof of the underlying armed robbery to support his felony murder convi

  • In re P.H.M.T.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00A0716

    Evidence that the applicant engaged in the unauthorized practice of law and gave incorrect answers on his application supported the denial of his application for certification of fitness to practic