• Smith v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul R. Koehler, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles E. Bailey and John C. Mayoue Warner, Mayoue, Bates & Nolen PC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S06A0897

    The trial court erred in significantly modifying the terms of the parties' divorce decree in a contempt proce

  • Johns v. Morgan

    Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Stansfield Greer, Stansfield & Turner LLP, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William G. Johnston III Shepherd & Johnston, Griffin, for appellee.

    Case Number: S06G0576

    The decedent's daughters, as his heirs at law, had the right to petition the superior court for an interlocutory injunction to protect potential estate assets, pending the outcome of the probate pro

  • White v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles C. Flinn Carnesale, Delan & Flinn LLC, and Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S06A0843

    The trial court harmlessly erred in charging on a witness's level of certainty in identifying the defendant, since other evidence, including the defendant's admission that he shot the victim suppor

  • Sheffield v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia F. Angeli, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jewel C. Scott, District Attorney, Melvin E. Abercrombie, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S06A1340

    The state does not have the burden of setting forth evidence to corroborate admissions, but must provide proof of those elements of the offense not adm

  • State v. Charbonneau

    Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Zebulon, and Cindy L. Spindler, Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter M. Chapman, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: S06G0215

    The defendant was required to give the state notice of his intent to give testimony on his own behalf at trial, even though the state was already aware that the defendant claimed to have an

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  • Cochran v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nina M. Svoren and Timothy P. Healy Healy & Svoren, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarkesville, and Richard K. Bridgeman, Assistant District Attorney, Toccoa, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Jodi Dick, Atlanta, and Laura D. Hogue Hogue & Hogue, Macon.

    Case Number: S06G0067

    The affidavit, which stated that the confidential informant saw a third-party enter the defendant's house with $40 in cash and emerge 30 seconds later holding a rock of crack cocaine, provided proba

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Beauvais Zipperer, Lorberbaum & Beauvais and Michael L. Edwards, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, David T. Lock, Thomas M. Cerbone, Assistant District Attorneys, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Patricia B. A. Burton, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant. Other party representation: Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr. and Holly L. Geerdes, Georgia Capital Defender, Atlanta.

    Case Number: S06P0675

    The defendant's death sentence was not disproportionate or excessive, given evidence that he murdered at least four persons and planned to murder several o

  • Phillips v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Wadkins and David E. Webb Public Defender's Office, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Raymond C. Mayer, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S06A0531

    Defense counsel was not deficient for failing to present certain alibi evidence, since the witnesses in question had credibility issues and counsel wanted to present the right to open and close argu

  • McWilliams v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randolph Frails, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S06A0420

    The trial court's error in excluding evidence of cocaine metabolites and alcohol in the victim's body was harmless, given the evidence presented at trial, including evidence that the defendant tried

  • Bolden v. Barton

    Publication Date: 2006-07-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore G. Frankel, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Mark M. J. Webb and C. King Askew Brinson Askew Berry Seigler, Rome, for appellees.

    Case Number: S06A0156

    The trial court had jurisdiction to determine a church's membership for the purpose of determining eligibility to vote on a property di