• Stills v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2000-09-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Genevieve L. Frazier Husser, Gammage & Frazier, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bernadette C. Crucilla, Macon, and Robert E. Turner, Warner Robins, for appellee. Amicus Appellants: H. William Sams Jr., Augusta, and Jean M. Kutner Kutner & Bloom, Atlanta.

    Case Number: S00A0118

    Determinations of child custody as between non-parents are governed by the best interest of the child sta

  • Waldrip v. Head

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence J. Fox and David J. Kessler Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Patricia B.A. Burton, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellee: Timothy P. Terrell Emory University, Roy M. Sobelson University of Ga. College of Law, Atlanta, Jack L. Simmons Jr. Walter F. George School of Law, Macon, and L. Ray Patterson University of Ga. School of Law, Athens.

    Case Number: S00A0383

    A habeas petitioner who claims ineffective assistance of counsel waives the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine to the extent that his trial counsel's documents and files are relevan

  • Potter v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Orin L. Alexis, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Jon Hope, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S00A0506

    Trial court properly granted state's motion to reopen the evi after defendant testified so that the state could introduce three newly-acquired photographs of defendant as rebuttal evi

  • Turner v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James A. Elkins Jr., Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Mark C. Post, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S00A0679

    Evidence that defendant shot her husband in the back after telling her friend that she could not take his abuse any longer supported her convi

  • Carthern v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Morrison and Paul S. Liston Jones, Morrison, Womack & Dearing PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Fayetteville, and Randall K. Coggin, Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, for appellee.

    Case Number: S99G1519

    The defendant recklessly endangered a human life within the meaning of O.C.G.A. § 16-7-22 a when he fired a gun at night into an inhabited home where residents were likely to be pr

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  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S00A0027, S00A0028

    The admission of the co-defendant's redacted statement inculpating the defendant violated the defendant's confrontation right, because the co-defendant did not testify and there was no evidence that

  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel L. Henderson, Marietta, and Jonathan R. Melnick Jonathan R. Melnick PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Frank R. Cox, Maria B. Golick, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S00A0412

    Defendant did not clearly and unambiguously request counsel during his custodial interrogation when he said he wanted to talk to someone about who his attorney wou

  • Kim v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Warren N. Coppedge Jr. Coppedge, Leman & Ward PC, Dalton, and Jeffrey A. Rothman Daniels & Rothman, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, LaFayette, and Leonard C. Gregor Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Ringgold, for appellee.

    Case Number: S00A0144

    The defendants were not entitled to a jury trial in the state's nuisance action, so the trial court's consolidating the hearing on the state's app on for an interlocutory injunction with its ap

  • Sacco v. State Court of DeKalb County

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S00A0538

    Since rial court can adequately address the plaintiff's claim that it lacks jurisdiction in his criminal case and he can appeal that decision, the plaintiff is not entitled to a writ prohibitin

  • North Ga. Reg'l Educ. Serv. Agency v. Weaver

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phillip L. Hartley Harben & Hartley, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: E. Wycliffe Orr and Kristine E. Orr, Gainesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S99G1287

    Since regional educational service agency was more like a local school board than a state agency, it was not a "public employer" to whom the state whistleblower statute ap