• Yancey v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-09-27
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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

  • Reynolds v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-09-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Torris J. Butterfield, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, and Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S02A0727

    The defendant was not entitled to a charge on defense of a third-party since he was in the act of committing an armed robbery when he shot the v

  • Dunn v. Edwards

    Publication Date: 2002-09-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell C. Gabriel University of Ga. Law School, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, Daniel F. Piar, Phillip C. Griffeth, Assistant District Attorneys, Athens, and Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S02A1013

    The trial court properly denied defendant's bond request after he failed to meet his burden of demonstrating his community

  • Auto-Owners Ins. Co. v. Ogden

    Publication Date: 2002-09-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Bullard IV and Miguel A. Garcia Jr. Bullard, Moody, Long & Garcia, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas F. Jarriel Lane & Jarriel, Macon, for appellee.

    Case Number: S02G0232

    An independent insurance agent cannot waive a policy limitation period for claims without the insurer's express auth

  • Eledge v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William B. Barnwell Avrett, Ponder & Withrock, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Dalton, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S02A1070

    Evidence that the 19-month-old victim died from a blunt-force head injury which resulted in a 5 to 6-inch skull fracture supported defendant's convic

  • Town of Tyrone v. Tyrone LLC

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore P. Meeker III Sanders, Haugen, Sears & Meeker PC, Newnan, and Andrew J. Whalen III Mullins, Whalen & Westbury, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: . George C. Rosenzweig and Sara A. Evans Rosenzweig, Jones & MacNabb PC, Newnan, for appellees.

    Case Number: S02A0484

    The trial court exceeded its judicial power in ordering the town to rezone certain pro as commercial since courts have no power to zone or rezone pro

  • Burkhardt v. Burkhardt

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert B. Thompson, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: C. David Turk III Germano & Kimmey PC and Richard A. Vandever, Assistant District Attorney Dawsonville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S02A0436

    O.C.G.A. § 9-11-4 f 2 requires service in person for Georgia residents who are outside the

  • Lynn v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-07-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert Adams Jr. The Adams Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S02A0677

    The state failed to present any evidence that the crimes occurred in Fulton County where defendant's trial was

  • Morris v. Douglas County Bd. of Health

    Publication Date: 2002-04-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leon A. Van Gelderen and Roy A. Banerjee Leon Van Gelderen PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Burke A. Noble, John P. Reale, Robert L. Welch Drew, Eckl & Farnham, T. Bart Gray, Stuart W. Gray Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, and Joseph H. Fowler Hartley, Rowe & Fowler, Douglasville, for appellees.

    Case Number: S01A1648

    Because the County Water and Sewer Authority did not agree to assume the duties set forth in the county code to inspect, maintain and repair on-site septic tanks, the county could not unilaterally i

  • Blackshear v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen D. Barr Barr, Warner & Pine, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S01A1830

    Court-appointed counsel's accep of fee in violation of the Georgia Code of Professional Conduct did not constitute per se ineffective assis