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  • Campbell v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer R. Burns, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Jennifer L. Parker, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1784

    The defendant fatally stabbed the victim after he saw the victim leave an apartment with his ex-girlf

  • In the Interest of I.S.

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keilani E. Kimes and Jeffrey L. Riddle Riddle & Schwartz, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and P. Brian Campbell, Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04G1126

    The parents' appeal of a deprivation order was moot where the juvenile court had closed the case and the children remained in the parents' cu

  • Billings v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney E. Davis, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Amy E. Smith, Erika S. Johnson, Assistant District Attorneys, Perry, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1716

    The trial court erred in failing to merge the defendant's conviction for armed robbery into his felony murder conviction and in sentencing him to a separate life sentence for that

  • Morrison v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Robinson III, 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 Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1529

    Trial counsel's decision not to object to the introduction of the defendant's prior felony conviction was a matter of trial str

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Sherrer Jr., Vienna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, Barbara A. Becraft, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1589

    The defendant sexually assaulted his ex-girlfriend, brutally beat her with a hammer-like object and set her on

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  • Rankin v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Renate D. Moody, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Dorothy V. Hull, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1687

    Evidence that the defendant struck her husband with her car and that he died from blunt force head trauma consistent with being struck by a vehicle supported her convictions for felony murder and ag

  • Dellinger v. Dellinger

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Archer D. Smith III & Fred P. Anthony Jr. Harmon, Smith, Bridges & Wilbanks, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph M. Winter Alembik, Fine & Callner PC, Atlanta, Michelle G. Harrison, and Kenneth W. Krontz, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04F1376

    The trial court erred in providing for a self-executing change of visitation in the event that the noncustodial parent moved more than 35 miles outside of the custodial parent's c

  • Botts v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-11-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. David Wolfe and Mark A. Yurachek, Atlanta, for Botts. Brandon Lewis, Norcross, for Pisciotta. Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Holly B. Hughes, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S04A0798; S04A0799

    Georgia's hate crime statute, O.C.G.A. § 17-10-17, is unconstitutionally vague since it enhances a criminal sentence where the factfinder determines that the defendant intentionally selected a victi

  • Henry v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-11-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1077

    The state proved venue in Fulton c through the officers' testimony that the victim was shot in an area located in that c

  • O'Kelley v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-11-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael L. Edwards Weiner, Shearouse, Weitz, Greenberg & Shawe LLP, Steven L. Beauvais Zipperer, Lorberbaum & Beauvais, and Brian L. Daly Daly, Bowen & Calhoun, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, David T. Lock, Gregory M. McConnell, Assistant District Attorneys, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Christopher D. Helms, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1227

    Ross v. State, 254 Ga. 22 1985, is overruled to the extent it held that an initial appearance hearing is not a formal legal proceeding wherein the Sixth Amendment right to counsel att