Filter This View

  • Stookey v. Stookey

    Publication Date: 2001-11-16
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gwenn D. Holland Kidd & Vaughan, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David M. Shippert White & Shippert PC, Powder Springs, Ray B. Gary Jr. and Jill E. Stahlman, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1362

    The trial court erred in finding that no settlement agreement existed where the uncontradicted testimony showed that the parties reached an agreement and that the written agreement accurately reflec

  • Daniley a/k/a Daniely v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-16
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert S. McPhail David & McPhail LLC, Butler, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Mark C. Post, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1606

    Defendant shot and killed the victim after the victim threw a beer bottle a

  • Najera v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-16
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Demetria N. Williams DeKalb County Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Jeanne M. Canavan, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1782

    Defendant waited for the v for 30 minutes outside of a nightclub, told the driver of his car to follow the v and intentionally shot the v

  • Henry County Record Inc. v. Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Alex Crumbley Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough, for Henry County Record. David E. Hudson and N. Shannon G. Lanier Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley, Augusta, for Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Michael A. O'Quinn, David P. Brenskelle and Gary K. Morris, McDonough, for Buttrill and others.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A1271; Sl01A1273

    The county's newly designated legal organ failed to meet the paid circulation requirements of O.C.G.A. § 9-13-14

  • Black v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clark C. Adams Jr., Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Alonza Whitaker, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1184

    Defendant's argument that the interrogating officer induced his statement by mentioning that death was a possible penalty was meritless since the decision to seek death penalty is a matter for the s

  • Law Journal Press | Digital Book

    Lawyer’s Handbook: Ethics Compliance and Claim Avoidance, The

    Authors: SHARI L. KLEVENS, ESQ., J. RANDOLPH EVANS, ESQ., ALANNA G. CLAIR, ESQ.

    View this Book

    View more book results for the query "*"

  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George Green, Reidsville, proceeded pro se. Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, Cordele, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A1379

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

  • Dawson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas M. West and Robert H. Citronberg, Atlanta, for Dawson. Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Susan W. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for the state. Amicus appellant: Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore, Robert L. Tsai American Civil Liberties Union, Natsu T. Saito Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, and Amy G. Donnella, St. Davids, Penn.Michael Mears, MultiCounty Public Defender, Stephen B. Bright Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, and Althea L. Buafo Buafo & Assocs., Macon, for Moore. Timothy G. Vaughn, District Attorney, Eastman, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for the state. Amicus appellant: Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A1041, S01A1210

    The future use of electrocution as a means of executing death sentences in Georgia would violate the Georgia Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punis

  • Dye v. Wallace

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Danny L. Durham Durham Law Firm PC, Richard A. Ingram Fleming, Blanchard, Jackson, Ingram & Floyd PC, and Donald H. White Steinberg, Steinberg & White PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James B. Ellington Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley, Augusta, for appellees. Amicus appellee: Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S01A0625

    The Supreme C truck down Georgia's Rape Confidentiality which is codified at O.C.G.A. § 16-6-23, because the statute was indistinguishable from a Florida statute that the United States Supreme

  • Tumlin v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel A. Summer Summer & Summer, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, Gregory E. Radics, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1197

    Given the overwhelming evidence, it was highly unlikely that the state's citation to an appellate court opinion during closing argument contributed to the guilty ve

  • Lewis v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harry W. MacDougald, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Susan P. Langford, City Attorney, Lemuel H. Ward and Kendric E. Smith, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1062

    The fact that plaintiffs had not served in their city jobs for over a year before they sought reinstatement supported the trial court's finding that they were not entitled to a temporary injun