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  • Dill v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel and Raymond B. Lail The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fredric D. Bright, District Attorney, Gray, Richard M. Gailey, Assistant District Attorney, Madison, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0613

    The trial court erred in refusing to recharge the jury on crucial elements of the defendant's de

  • Fortson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward D. Tolley and Ronald E. Houser Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael LLP, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, Hartwell, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A1169

    Causing a defendant to unnecessarily use a peremptory strike on a juror that should have been excused for cause is per se harmful

  • State of Ga. v. Heretic Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-10-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, John B. Ballard Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, William W. Banks Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for the State of Georgia. Glenn Zell and Michael Clutter Zell & Zell, Atlanta, for Heretic Inc. Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, and Jeffrey B. Norman, Assistant City Attorney, Atlanta, for the city of Atlanta.
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    Case Number: S03A1050; S03A1051

    City and state statutory schemes allowing eating establishment exceptions to the general ban on Sunday alcohol sales by the drink are constitut

  • Smith v. Tronitec Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-10-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence E. Newlin and Frank R. Olson Lawrence E. Newlin & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jame T. Budd Mabry & McClelland LLP, Herbert M. Hanegan Smith, Gambrell & Russell, L. Bruce Hedrick Gray & Hedrick LLP, and Richard C. Freeman III, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0914

    The trial court erred in denying the defendants' plea in abatement to plaintiff's claims, which were compulsory counterclaims to another pending

  • Smart v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ingrid J. McGaughey, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0675

    The trial court did not err in limiting evidence of the victim's homosexuality to the evidence which was relevant to defendant's claim of self de

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  • Palmer v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellis R. Garnett, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0786

    There was no evidence that police induced defendant's confession and the evidence showed that he was taking medication, which controlled his psychotic disorder throughout the time period in que

  • Fulton v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0883

    Defendant's untimely motion for a new trial did not toll the time period for filing his notice of a

  • Armstrong v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ray B. Gary Jr., and Jill E. Stahlman, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amelia G. Pray, Patricia G. Hull, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0731

    Neither the trial court, nor the verdict form required the jury to reach a unanimous verdict on the murder charge before considering the lesser offense of involuntary manslau

  • Thompson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Elizabeth Lane, Macon, and James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Katherine E. K. Lumsden and Amy E. Smith, Assistant District Attorneys, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03G0176

    Proper sufficiency of the evidence review on appeal is limited to evidence actually presented at

  • Perdue v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank C. Jones, Macon, Kirk M. McAlpin Jr., Carlton M. Henson Cushing, Morris, Armbruster & Montgomery, Atlanta, and Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Perry, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael E. Hobbs, Assistant Attorney General, Richard H. Sinkfield, Robert B. Remar, Ashley R. Hurst, Julie K. Bracker Rogers & Hardin LLP, Randi E. Schnell, Jeffrey O. Bramlett and Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: John O. Cole and David G. Oedel Mercer University Law School, Macon. Amicus appellee: Anne S. Emanuel Georgia State University, Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, William H. Pryor Jr., Attorney General, Margaret H. Fleming, Assistant Attorney General, and Nathan A. Forrester, Solicitor General, Montgomery, Ala.
    Case Number: S03A1154

    Georgia's Governor had no clear right to order the Attorney General to dismiss an appeal he filed on the state's behalf in the United States Supreme