• Porras v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-07-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven E. Phillips Public Defender's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Anna G. Cross, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Christian A. Fuller, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14A0551

    The trial court harmlessly erred in failing to charge the jury that a witness could be impeached by proof that the witness was convicted of a f

  • Hernandez v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-04-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jess B. Johnson The Pate Law Firm LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Karen M. Harris, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13G1554

    The defendant failed to preserve any error with respect to the admission of similar transaction evidence of an out-of-state traffic

  • Humphrey v. Walker

    Publication Date: 2014-04-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Sabrina D. Graham, and Dana E. Weinberger, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Kammer Georgia Resource Center, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13A1472; S13X1473

    The habeas petitioner carried his heavy burden of showing that he was denied effective assistance of counsel with respect to the investigation and evaluation of his mental health and competence, and

  • England v. Simmons

    Publication Date: 2014-04-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John P. Webb Smith, Welch, Webb & White LLC, Joseph M. Brittain, Stockbridge, and Grant E. McBride Smith, Welch, Webb & White LLC, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kristofer R. Schleicher Giacoma Schleicher LLC, and Andrew P. Kaiser Joyce Thrasher Kaiser & Liss LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: S13G1709

    The provisions of the testator's will supported a finding that he intended to separately dispose of personal pro connected with his sole proprietorship and his other personal pro

  • Bonner v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-04-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra G. Gomez Gomez Law Group, Macon, and Tamika L. Fluker, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karl D. Cooke Jr., District Attorney, Dorothy V. Hull, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Andrew G. Sims, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14A0034

    The trial court did not violate O.C.G.A. § 17-8-57 in reprimanding the defendant's counsel in front of the jury during his cross-examination of a wi

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  • State v. Hargis

    Publication Date: 2014-03-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Langley, District Attorney, and Cathy A. Cox-Brakefield, Assistant District Attorney, Blairsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew J. Tuck, Kyle G. A. Wallace, and Jonathan D. Parente Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13G0645

    Asserting a disqualification in a motion for new trial before the same judge who is alleged to be disqualified without also asking the judge to recuse from hearing the motion for new trial, as was d

  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-03-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Persse, Stuart H. H. Patray, and Russell R. Jones Public Defender's Office, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Kimberly S. Easterling District Attorney's Office, Augusta, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and David A. Zisook, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13A1569

    The trial court harmlessly erred in admitting evidence that the defendant had a tattoo of a gun similar to the one that killed the victim, since the evidence of the defendant's guilt, including the

  • Boyd v. JohnGalt Holdings LLC

    Publication Date: 2014-03-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lindsey W. Hillis Hillis, Robison & Coffelt, and Francis X. Moore, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David H. Flint and J. Carole Thompson Hord Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Ned Blumenthal Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta.

    Case Number: S13A1429

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the defendant to assert its compulsory counterclaim to quiet title three years after its original responsive pleading in the plaintiffs' act

  • Copelan v. Copelan

    Publication Date: 2014-03-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brad J. Evans Winkler & Dubose LLC, and M. Joseph Reitman Jr., General Counsel Lambert, Reitman & Abney LLC, Madison, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Milton F. Gardner Jr. Gardner & Gardner, and William H. Smith III, Milledgeville, for appellees.

    Case Number: S13A1390

    The failure to prove an issue by a higher evidentiary sta will not work a collateral estoppel in a subsequent case in which the same issue need only be proven by a lower sta

  • Gwinnett Cnty. v. McManus

    Publication Date: 2014-03-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael V. Stephens II, County Attorney, and Michael P. Ludwiczak Gwinnett County Department of Law, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert M. Reeves and Marian C. Adeimy Andersen, Tate & Carr PC, Duluth, for appellees.

    Case Number: S13A1878

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting an interlocutory injunction against the county prohibiting it from using artificial means to increase the water and sediment that runs off t