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  • Boswell v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Claudia S. Saari, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0796

    Evidence that the mentally ill defendant shot her family because she thought the Mafia was going to burn them did not demand a verdict of not guilty by reason of ins

  • Yancey v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold S. Gulliver, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jill M. Zubler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S02A0843

    A statement made by an individual who was under suspicion for the crimes in question did not meet the requirements for trustworthiness under the necessity exception to the hearsay

  • White v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold A. Sturdivant and Michele W. Ogletree Sullivan, Sturdivant & Ogletree PC, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom, District Attorney, Robert H. English, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1555

    Defendant's videotaped statement was admissible since he signed a written waiver after the officers read him his rights, he was a high school graduate and the officers did not threaten him or offer

  • Fann v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Demetria N. Williams DeKalb County Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy District Attorney, Jeanne M. Canavan, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1213

    Evidence that defendant discussed robbing a gas station a day or two before he robbed the victim, as well as evidence that he was using cocaine and marijuana at that time, was admissible to show def

  • Bibbs v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Xavier C. Dicks, Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0951

    The evidence, though circumstantial, supported a finding that the defendant drove to the victim's store, shot him dead and robbed him of money and fir

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  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick G. Longhi, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0830

    Evidence that the defendant, his brother and a third man shot at the unarmed victim following an earlier argument supported defendant's felony murder convi

  • C-Staff Inc. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Howard R. Evans and Robert F. Dallas Shaw, Evans & Dallas LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Scott J. Topolski and Beth L. Blechman The Szymoniak Firm PA, Boca Raton, Fla., for appellee.
    Case Number: S02Q0764

    O.C.G.A. § 9-11-69 does not authorize a ju creditor to implead and hold persons liable who were not parties to the underlying ju

  • Banks v. Hopson

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Weinstock and Susan B. Jacobs Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen C. Steele and Victor P. Valmus Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1294

    The mother was not entitled to a jury trial on her child support claim in a consolidated paternity/legitimation proceeding, even though the father admitted paternity, since O.C.G.A. § 19-7-40 a proh

  • Curney v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold S. Gulliver, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1339

    Since the medical examiner's testimony that he classified the victim's death as a homicide did not invade the jury's role in deciding whether the victim's death was intentional or an accident, defen

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Kraus, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1480

    a defendant whose non-recidivist co-defendant received two consecutive life sentences did not show that he would have gone to trial, but for his counsel's allegedly deficient advice about the conse