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  • Denton v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Culp, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Michelle McIntire, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1878

    Testimony that the defendant "acts up all the time" did not place her character at

  • Hatcher v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1856

    The defendant's inculpatory statements to arresting were admissible, because they were spontaneous and voluntary and not the product of police interrog

  • Mikell v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, Statesboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1766

    The defendant was one of three men, who robbed the participants of a dice game and shot three victims, killin

  • Larizza v. Larizza

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrea L. Landers and David A. Wester, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher T. Adams, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09F1836

    Although the appellee admitted that the appellant was not willingly unemployed, the Court assumed that the trial court resolved conflicting evidence properly in the absence of a trans

  • Arnold v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek M. Wright The Wright Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Mary K. Ware, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1382

    The defendant failed to meet the requirements for admitting the murder victim's 1979 robbery convi

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  • State v. Gardner

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julia A. F. Slater, District Attorney, and William D. Kelly Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kathryn E. Rhodes Law Offices of Olds & Rhodes PC, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09G1210

    The trial court did not express or intimate its opinion as to what had or had not been proved, because its directive to prove venue was immediately followed by a question as to whether venue was p

  • Hall v. Lance

    Publication Date: 2010-02-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Patricia B. A. Burton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for Hall. L. Joseph Loveland Jr. and James W. Boswell III King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, for Lance.
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    Case Number: S09A1536, S09X1538

    The Supreme Court reversed the habeas court's grant of defendant's habeas petition regarding his death sent

  • Wesley v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: DuPont K. Cheney Jr. Cheney & Baskin LLC, Greensboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Stephany J. Luttrell, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1376

    The defendant approached the unarmed victim and fatally shot him in the

  • Lackey v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-11-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa L. Smith, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Melanie M. Bell, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sheila E. Gallow, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1215

    The evidence did not support the defendant's conviction for obstruction, since the defendant immediately complied when the pursuing officer ordered him to

  • Anderson v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-11-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, Statesboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0676

    The trial court's charge on reasonable doubt did not lower state's burden of proof, even though trial court included extraneous statement on best possibility of d