• Lance v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Richardson Brannon The Brannon Law Office, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Winder, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Romin Alavi, Assistant Attorney General, and Patricia B. A. Burton Dep't of Law, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S01P1813

    The defendant killed the first victim with at least two shotgun blasts and beat the second victim to death with repeated blows to her

  • Mitchell v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-02-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher S. Warren, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, Gregory W. Edwards, Troy E. Golden, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S01A1346

    Evidence that defendant borrowed a friend's handgun before the murder and asked the friend to help him kill the victim supported defendant's malice murder convi

  • Patterson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-02-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teddy R. Price, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, and Alvera A. Wheeler, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S01A1327

    Defendant's murder confession was tainted by the state's violation of his right to counsel during a prior inte

  • Lane v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-02-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacqueline J. Herring Fulton County Conflict Defender Inc., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn and Robert C. McBurney, Assistant District Attorneys, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S01G0976

    Defendant did not lose the right to open and close arguments when his co-defendant's counsel had an officer on cross-examination read a portion of his testimony from a preliminary hearing for impeac

  • Graham v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard M. Darden, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Christine S. Barker, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S01A1809

    Evidence of specific acts of violence committed by the victim against third parties as inadmissible because defendant failed to establish a prima facie case of justific

  • Paul v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward D. Tolley and Ronald E. Houser Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael LLP, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, Daniel F. Piar, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S01A0835

    Defendant repeatedly struck the victim with a belt for more than 30 minutes resulting in the victim's death from a fat emboliz

  • State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Mabry

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: E. A. Simpson Jr., Linda G. Birchall Powell, Goldstein, Frazier & Murphy LLP, John A. Chandler, Carey P. DeDeyn, Teresa W. Roseborough Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, W. G. Scrantom Jr. Page, Scrantom, Sprouse, Tucker & Ford and C. Ronald Ellington, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles N. Pope, Wade H. Tomlinson III, Paul Kilpatrick Jr., Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, William B. Hardegree, James E. Humes II Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis & Rothschild, Columbus, Michael L. McGlamry, Elizabeth P. Holmes, William U. Norwood III Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, Atlanta, and Christopher A. Kesler, Houston, Tex. for appellees. Amicus Appellants: Michael J. Goldman, H. Lane Young II Hawkins & Parnell, Herbert D. Shellhouse, Alan W. Loeffler Troutman Sanders LLP, Dwight J. Davis, Sidney S. Haskins II King & Spalding, Atlanta, Benjamin A. Land, Clay D. Land Buchanan & Land LLP, Columbus, Charles W. Byrd Walker, Hulbert, Gray & Byrd, Perry, Frank H. Childs Jr. and Duke R. Groover Groover & Childs, Macon.

    Case Number: S01A0982

    The trial court properly determined that insurance companies must reimburse policyholders for the value, rather than the condition, of a vehicle that has sustained physical damage resulting from a

  • Hamilton v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert A. Maxwell, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S01A0593

    The trial court did not err in allowing defense counsel to inquire on voir dire whether any of the jurors had been affected by the pretrial publicity on the O. J. Simpson

  • In re C.P.

    Publication Date: 2001-11-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul J. Stalcup, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard R. Read, District Attorney, and Robert D. James Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Conyers, for appellee.

    Case Number: S01A0748

    A public restroom stall is not a private place when it is used for other than its intended purpose so it could not serve as the basis for quashing a delinquency petition arising out of an unmarried

  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Billy M. Grantham, Donalsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, Bainbridge, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S01A1740

    Defendant strangled his girlfriend by wrapping an extension cord around her neck and twisting it around a broom h