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  • Traylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A2101

    The defendant properly raised his incompetency claims via his motion for new trial and he presented expert evidence, which called his competency to stand trial into

  • Sherrod v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Persse, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, W. Scott Brannen, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1952

    O.C.G.A. § 16-8-4 c 3 imposes an unconstitutional mandatory presumption that a defendant is guilty of theft by conversion of a leased property if a lessee does not return the subject of the lease wi

  • R. D. Brown Contractors Inc. v. Board of Educ. of Columbia County

    Publication Date: 2006-02-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul H. Dunbar III Capers, Dunbar, Sanders & Bruckner, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William M. Fleming Fleming, Jackson, Ingram & Floyd and John B. Long Tucker, Everitt, Long, Brewton & Lanier, Augusta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A1422

    A government entity retains its statutorily granted power to waive technicalities in its invitation for bidding for public pro

  • Lloyd v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Michael Blend & Michael LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, and Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1627

    The record belied the defendant's contention that he was unaware of a bond condition that he was to "stay away, absolutely, directly, or indirectly, by person, telephone, messenger or any other mean

  • Bayless v. Bayless

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Martin Huddleston McGough, Huddleston & Medori and David A. Webster, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eugene P. Chambers III and Jill C. Zierer McGinnis & Chambers LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05F1953

    The trial court had the authority to strike the husband's answer and counterclaim and to prevent his attorney from tendering evidence at the final hearing on the case, based on the husband's course

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  • Price v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Laurie M. Hughes, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A2039

    Even if the trial court initially gave an improper sequential charge on voluntary manslaughter, the defendant was not entitled to reversal, because the record showed that the jury considered, but ul

  • Redwine v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Shelnutt and David Benjamin Ross Berry, Shelnutt, Day & Hoffman PC, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, David R. Helmick, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1060

    The defendant broke into the victim's home, held the victim down and boun with duct tape before the defendant's accomplice stabbed the victim, cut her throat and kicked and bludgeone

  • Young v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Orin L. Alexis, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Margaret E. Heap, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1305

    The defendant's aggravated assault conviction merged into his malice murder conviction as a matter o

  • Ritchie v. Metro Tax Investors Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James B. Ritchie, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bradley A. Hutchins Proctor, Chambers & Hutchins, David A. Stewart, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Daniel M. Formby, Deputy Attorney General, Atlanta, and David B. Davidson, Roswell, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1774

    An adjacent landowner lacked standing to challenge the plaintiff's action to quiet title to 1.63 acres of land that it acquired pursuant to a foreclosure sale, since she failed to show that she had

  • Brewer v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Corbin, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Dalton, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1368

    The defendant's malice murder conviction was supported by the evidence, including forensic evidence that either of the two gunshot wounds to the victim's head, by itself, would have instantly incapa