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  • McKenzie v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Mason, Columbus, for McKenzie. William F. Rucker, Decatur, for Scott. John G. Conger, District Attorney, Alonza Whitaker, Susan L. Henderson, Assistant District Attorneys, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A0039; S01A0703

    Given the evidence that defendants forced the victim into the trunk of a car, drove him to an empty stretch of road and shot him numerous times following an argument over a drug deal, there was no p

  • Dyer v. Souther

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank J. Beltran and Douglas V. Chandler Beltran & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jack M. Carey Carey, Jarrard & Walker, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0254

    The phrase "definite tilt" should be removed from the suggested preliminary jury instructions on burden of proof since that phrase could be construed as requiring a party in a civil case to meet a

  • Fleming v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Keith Davidson and Darel C. Mitchell, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Lawrenceville, District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0269

    The trial court properly refused to charge on voluntary manslaughter, self-defense or mutual combat because defendant claimed that he shot the victim by acc

  • State v. Tyson

    Publication Date: 2001-04-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Maria B. Golick, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, and Debra H. Bernes Bentley, Bentley & Bentley, Marietta, for the state. George T. Smith Browning, Tanksley & Casurella, Marietta, for Tyson.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S00G0606; S00A2019

    The state may seek discretionary review by certiorari of any Court of Appeals' decision in favor of a criminal defe

  • City of Atlanta v. TAP Assocs.

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan P. Langford, City Attorney, David D. Blum and Lemuel H. Ward City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Wyckliffe A. Knox Jr., Michael E. Brooks Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Susan M. Pruett, Atlanta, Robert L. Zoeckler, Thomas A. Bowman, John A. Nix Maddox, Nix, Bowman & Zoeckler, Conyers, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A2086

    City's all-residential zoning of plaintiff's property was justified by the public valid interest in protecting city's neighbor

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  • York Ins. Co. v. Williams Seafood of Albany Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter H. Schmidt II and Elizabeth B. Clarke Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert B. Langstaff, Albany for appellee.
    Case Number: S00Q2003

    Flood damage exclusion in insurance policy did not extend to additional coverage for losses caused by a sinkhole, even if the loss followed a

  • State v. Wooten

    Publication Date: 2001-03-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Booby L. Cook Cook & Connelly, Summerville, and Todd M. Johnson Johnson Law PC, Cohutta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00G1574

    The Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit's system of allowing the district attorney to assign criminal cases to a specific courtroom at the beginning of the criminal trial week did not violate the chil

  • Hogan v. Nagel

    Publication Date: 2001-03-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Robert G. Nardone, Avondale Estate, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Torin D. Togut Georgia Legal Servs. Program Inc., Debra Blum, James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta, and Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1537

    Defendant who was committed to a mental facility after he was acquitted of murder by reason of insanity was not required to exhaust his remedies under O.C.G.A. § 17-7-131 f before he could seek habe

  • Glynn County Bd. of Tax Assessors v. Haller

    Publication Date: 2001-03-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory T. Carter, Richard K. Strickland and Terry L. Readdick Whelchel, Brown, Readdick & Bumgartner, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert P. Killian Killian & Boyd, Eugene Highsmith, James A. Bishop, Monroe L. Frey III, Gary W. Moore, Brunswick, Douglas W. Alexander, St. Simons Island, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Warren R. Calvert, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0114; S01A0504

    The trial court erred in temporarily enjoining the county tax board from applying its proposed tax digest because plaintiffs had an adequate remedy at law under O.C.G.A. § 48-

  • Clark v. Wade

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Tunkle English, Tunkle & Smith, Clayton, for Clark. Susan C. Campbell, Steven Campbell Campbell & Campbell and Phillip G. Cody Jr. McDonald & Cody, Cornelia, for Wade. Jean M. Kutner Kutner & Bloom and David A. Webster, Atlanta, for Driver. John W. Moulton and Kristine R. M. Tarrer Moulton & Massey LLC, Conyers, for Raines. Amicus Appellants: Vicky O. Kimbrell, Hannibal F. Heredia, Vicky L. Gribble, Phyllis H. Holman, Atlanta, and Todd C. Hughes Georgia Legal Servs., Augusta. Amicus Appellee: Stephen R. Scarborough Lambda Legal Def/Educ Fund Inc., Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S00A1610, S00A2014

    The best-interest-of-the-child standard is constitutional as applied to custody disputes between a noncustodial parent and a third party under O.C.G.A. § 19-7-