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  • Washington v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-02-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Green B. Moore III, Leonard D. Myers Jr., and Kelly L. McLain Public Defender's Office, Gray, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karl D. Cooke Jr., District Attorney, Dorothy V. Hull, Elizabeth K. Bobbitt, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1620

    The trial court properly admitted evidence of the murder defendant's second extramarital relationship to show that he had a motive to conceal his extramarital affair with the victim not only from hi

  • Pack v. Mahan

    Publication Date: 2014-02-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce W. Phillips, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David E. Barrett, Cleveland, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1338

    The trial court erred in nominally awarding an equitable partition when the legal remedy of statutory partitioning was adequate and no peculiar circumstances would render an equitable proceeding mor

  • Barker v. Barker

    Publication Date: 2014-02-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin M. Mammola Cordell & Cordell, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Miriam A. Arnold-Johnson, Snellville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1705

    The trial court erred in dismissing the husband's petition to enforce and to modify the parties' divorce decree, as the nonresident wife was subject to continuing personal jurisdiction pursuant to O

  • Herrington v. Gaulden

    Publication Date: 2013-11-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Grant, Louis B. Park, Matthew L. J. D. Dowell Alston & Bird LLP, Kathleen W. Simcoe, Theodore E. G. Pound Commander Pound Butler LLP, Paul E. Weathington Weathington Smith PC, Atlanta, Matthew S. Coles Coles Barton LLP, Lawrenceville, B. Nicole Smith, and Wiley A. Wasden III Brennan & Wasden LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amicus Appellant: Joshua B. Belinfante Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC, Donald J. Palmisano Jr. Medical Association of Georgia, and Eric J. Frisch Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta. Andrew S. Johnson, H. Craig Stafford, and Jeffery L. Arnold Arnold & Stafford, Hinesville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S13G0577

    The Court of Appeals erred in finding that an exception to the requirement of doctor-patient privity in a professional negligence case resulted from the application of Gray v. Vaughn, 217 Ga. App. 8

  • Georgia Dep't of Human Servs. v. Spruill

    Publication Date: 2013-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston, Jennifer L. Dalton, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Robert L. Bunner, Assistant Attorney General, and Ronald S. Boyter Jr. Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James A. Attwood The Attwood Law Firm LLC, Decatur, for appellees.
    Case Number: S12G2002

    A DFCS caseworker's decision to not undress the 1-year-old twins who were allegedly neglected and malnourished in order to properly assess their condition constituted a discretionary function for wh

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  • Deal v. Coleman

    Publication Date: 2013-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
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    Case Number: S13A1084; S13A1085

    The Supreme Court reversed the denial of the defendants' motion to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to compel the production of certain records concerning the hiring practices of Kia Motors Manufacturing

  • Johnson v. Burrell

    Publication Date: 2013-11-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kermit S. Dorough Jr., Albany, and Jesse G. Bowles III, Cuthbert, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard W. Fields and George P. Donaldson III Perry & Walters LLP, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0728

    Although the propounder of a will had a confidential relationship with the decedent and was not the natural object of his bounty, the presumption of undue influence ot arise because the evidenc

  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wallace C. Clayton II Jones, Morrison & Womack PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine T. Parvis, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0977

    An eyewitness identified the defendant as the shooter who fired a handgun at partygoers as they left a house party, fatally striking one of

  • McKibbins v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cynthia W. Harrison Harrison Law Firm LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Sheila E. Gallow, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ryan A. Kolb, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1051

    Although the prosecutor stated that the case was the worst she had ever seen, the statement did not demand a mistrial as she was merely preparing the jury for the gruesome nature of the evidence tha

  • Burch v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-24
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    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
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    Case Number: S13A0761

    Even if the trial court failed to personally advise the defendant of his Boykin rights during his plea colloquy, the record showed that the defendant was otherwise advised of those rights in connect