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  • Rogers v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-11-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George T. Jackson Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, Barbara A. Becraft, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Mary K. Ware, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0651

    The record showed that the defendant entered his plea freely, knowingly, and volunt

  • Coker v. Coker

    Publication Date: 2009-10-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael D. Kaufman and Lindsay S. Marks Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason P. Hood and Thomas N. Brunt Brunt & Hood LLC, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09F1159

    The trial court erred in awarding the wife $36.5K in lump sum alimony, payable over 3.5 months, given the total lack of evidence showing that the husband had the financial resources to pay that a

  • In re: A.C.

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phillip Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Abdulhakim Saadiq Saadiq & Assocs. LLC, Decatur, and Tyrone M. Hodnett II, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0931

    OCGA § 5-6-35a12 does not violate the constitution's equal protection c

  • Jarvis v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh B. Merchant The Merchant Law Firm PC, Marietta, 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, Attorney General, and Amy E. H. Morelli, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1182

    Defense counsel was not deficient with regard to a witness's surprise trial testimony that he and the defendant committed a prior robbery on the night of the m

  • Bodkin v. Bolia

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Mack Jr. Mack & Harris PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul I. Hotchkiss, Jack R. Hancock, Brian R. Dempsey Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Forest Park, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09A0842

    The appeal from the dismissal of a petition for writ of mandamus, seeking to compel the grant of a nomination petition in an election for public office was moot, since the general election had alrea

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  • Treadwell v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven M. Harrison, Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Vaughn, District Attorney, Jason O. Waters, Assistant District Attorney, Eastman, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0702

    The defendant fatally assaulted an 81-year-old victim, and stole his car and p

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel F. Little Jr. Little & Crumly LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1073

    Evidence that the defendant fatally stabbed his estranged wife at a bus stop supported his felony murder and aggravated assault convic

  • Bullard v. Thomas

    Publication Date: 2009-06-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory K. Hecht, Robert L. Mack Jr. and Jon W. Jordan Hecht, Mack & Harris, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0069

    The defendant entered his guilty plea to burglary knowingly and volunt

  • Dryden v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-05-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Troy R. Millikan, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, Juliet Aldridge and Alison W. Toller, Assistant District Attorneys, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08G1897

    The defendant could not be convicted and sentenced for both aggravated assault on an officer and serious injury by vehicle based on reckless driving, since the verdict of guilt for the crimes must b

  • Walker v. Sapelo Island Heritage Auth.

    Publication Date: 2009-04-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald O. Nelson, Townsend, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John E. Bumgartner and Steven G. Blackerby Brown, Readdick, Bumgartner, Carter, Strickland & Watkins LLP, Brunswick, for appellees.
    Case Number: S08A1608

    A question of material fact remained as to whether the plaintiffs possessed a 3.8-acre tract of real property on Sapelo Island in McIntosh c