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  • Hodo v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas and Jo Ann Claudrick, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, George W.K. Snyder Jr., Senior Assistant District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Phyllis M. Burgess, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jeanne K. Strickland, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1557

    Trial court's denial of defendant's request for sequestered voir dire did not deny defendant the right to a fair and impartial jury, since there was no evidence that the entire venire was tainted by

  • Dyer v. Souther, Ex'r

    Publication Date: 2000-03-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank J. Beltran and Charlotte K. Perrell Beltran & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jack M. Carey Carey, Jarrard & Walker, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1294

    Trial court erred in directing a verdict on caveators' claim that will was the product of undue influence by propounder of will since there was sufficient circumstantial evidence to raise a jury que

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd W. Walker, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Fayetteville, Randall K. Coggin, Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1283

    The defendant's aggravated battery conviction merged into his malice murder conviction since both crimes required the state to prove that the defendant maliciously shot the victim in the forehead wi

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellis R. Garnett, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1581

    The trial court erred in charging the jury that it could consider the number of witnesses on each

  • Warren v. Board of Regents

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Hue Henry and Christopher L. Casey, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Floyd C. Newton III, Letitia A. McDonald, Michael R. Smith King & Spalding, George P. Shingler, Karen R. Dunbar Casey, Gilson & Williams PC, James C. Rawls Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP, Randolph A. Mayer Mayer & Beal, Carrie L. Christie Savell & Williams LLP, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Daniel M. Formby, John B. Ballard Jr., Deputy Attorneys General, and Oscar B. Fears III, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S99A1495

    The plaintiffs' appeal from the ruling that denied them standing to seek enforcement of a charitable trust based on the trial court's interpretation of O.C.G.A. § 53-12-115 did not invoke the Suprem

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  • Somchith v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Juwayn N. Haddad, Clarkesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Toccoa, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1779

    The trial court properly refused to give defendant's requested charge on adultery since he and the murder victim were not ma

  • Jenkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert F. Pirkle Pirkle & Pirkle, Hinesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Thomas Durden Jr., District Attorney, Hinesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary B. Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1805

    Evidence showed that defendant was a party to the crime, since his friend argued with the victim, defendant threw his car keys to his friend and told him to get a gun out of the trunk, and his frie

  • Tyler v. Lincoln

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald D.J. Stack Stack & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David A. Sapp Newman, Sapp & Davis LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S99G0931

    Subdivision developers' failure to respond to adjacent landowners' complaints regarding stormwater runoff raised a jury issue as to landowners' claim for punitive damages and attorneys'

  • Travelers Inc. v. Patterman

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Tucker Dye, Tucker, Everitt, Long & Brewton, Augusta, C.B. Rogers, Peter W. Schneider and John J. Almond Rogers & Hardin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David E. Hudson Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley, John C. Bell Jr., James L. Bentley III, Pamela S. James Bell & James, Augusta, and Barry Weprin Milberg, Weise, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, New York, NY, for appellees. Amicus appellants: Lewis E. Hassett Morris, Manning & Martin, Martin M. Wilson, Robert H. Forry Troutman Sanders, Frank C. Jones, Michael R. Powers, David J. Onorato King & Spalding, Cindy M. Swinson Cotton States Ins., Karen E. Cooper Life of Georgia, Atlanta, Joey M. Loudermilk AFLAC, Columbus, Scott J. Cipinko National Alliance of Life Cos., Rosemont, Ill., and Victoria E. Fimea American Council of Life Ins., Washington, DC.
    Case Number: S99G0530

    Under O.C.G.A. § 33-4-1 2, plaintiffs could bring their claim that insurers used deception to convert their whole life policies to term policies in any county where at least one insurer had an

  • Blair v. Blair

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert G. Nardone, Avondale Estates, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shelby A. Outlaw The Outlaw Firm, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1459

    Parties' divorce decree required that defendant pay premiums to maintain his ex-wife's health insurance coverage at a level as close as possible to what she had under defendant's policy during their