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  • Baldwin v. Vineyard

    Publication Date: 2002-04-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Allison Jr., Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: James J. Hopkins and Susan R. Waldrep Hopkins & Taylor LLP, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0500

    A self-effectuating contempt provision in the parties' final divorce order was improper since it was predicated solely upon the submission of an affidavit by the wife and failed to provide the husba

  • Wilson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-04-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jon W. McClure and J. Michael Bass, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1799

    The witnesses' in-court identifications of def were admissible, even if their pre-trial identifications were impermissibly suggestive, because both witnesses testified that they identified de

  • Lawson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Gratz Jr., Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Bowden, District Attorney, Bradford L. Rigby, Assistant District Attorney, Tifton, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0151

    Extensive medical evidence authorized the jury to find that defendant's actions in beating the 74-year-old victim about his head, face and neck either ally contributed to the victim's death or

  • Meadows v. Settles

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roger A. Baruch Center for Prisoners' Legal Assistance, Alpharetta, for appellee. Amicus Appellee: James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S02A0034

    A reviewing court is authorized to reverse a probation revocation for fundamental unfairness based on independent evidence showing that the admission of a probation violation was not knowing or volu

  • Durden v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony S. Carter, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Alan A. Cook, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jennifer S. Gill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0169

    The defendant was not entitled to a mistrial after a witness spontaneously remarked that he took a lie detector test since the witness did not apprise the jury of the results of the test and the tri

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  • Hale v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Storms, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, and Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0069

    Defense counsel was not deficient for failing to procure a psychiatric evaluation or challenge defendant's competency to stand trial, despite defendant's heart condition and diabetes, since defendan

  • Lucious v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Lucious, Waycross, proceeded pro se. Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, Jonesboro, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S01A1719

    Habeas corpus provided the defendant's only remedy for challenging his guilty plea after the term of court in which it was en

  • Fleming v. First Union Nat'l Bank

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Howard H. Johnston Johnston & Marsh, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Stephen W. Riddell and Joel P. Howle Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1682

    Under the terms of the testator's will, the remainder interest which she left to her great-grandchildren was to be distributed per st

  • Wilson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Sparger Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, and Charles C. Grile, Pooler, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1315

    Defendant acquiesced in an in-chambers conference outside of his presence in which the trial court ruled on the state's motion in l

  • Bruce v. Wallis

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip S. Coe, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas M. Martin, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1699

    The trial court abused its discretion in finding that the corrective steps taken by the defendant did not adequately abate an alleged nui