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  • Terrell v. Terrell

    Publication Date: 2013-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sara E. Adams, Loganville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Marcy A. Hanks Foster & Hanks LLC, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13F1599

    Evidence, including the mother's positive test for THC metabolites/marijuana, supported the judgment awarding the father primary physical custody of the parties' minor dau

  • Colon v. Fulton Cnty.

    Publication Date: 2013-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
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    Case Number: S12G1905; S12G1911; S12G1912

    In Fulton County v. Colon, 316 Ga. App. 883 2012, the Court of Appeals inappropriately grafted provisions of O.C.G.A. § 41-1-4 b onto § 41-1-4 d, and it compounded this error in then defining types

  • Franklin v. Franklin

    Publication Date: 2013-11-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Celeste F. Brewer, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elijah Franklin, Jacksonville, N. C., proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: S13F0735

    The trial court erred in determining the amount of the wife's gross monthly income for the purpose of determining her child support obliga

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-11-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alixe E. Steinmetz Public Defender's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Arthur C. Walton, Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ryan A. Kolb, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0937

    The evidence authorized the jury to find that the defendant arranged to buy cocaine from the victim and also arranged for her friend and drug business cohort to rob the victim at gunpoint, during wh

  • Coggins v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Evans, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Meghan H. Hill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1134

    The defendant fatally stabbed the victim twice in the chest and admitted to several people that he d

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  • Boyd v. Washington

    Publication Date: 2013-10-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
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    Case Number: S13A0869

    The record belied the habeas defendant's contention that the trial court improperly sentenced him as a recidivist to life without the possibility of p

  • Bryant v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charita H. Demps, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Sheila E. Gallow, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Andrew G. Sims, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1017

    The evidence supported the defendant's convictions arising from the rape and murder of his former girlfriend's m

  • Hasty v. Castleberry

    Publication Date: 2013-10-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy E. Barnes, Allison B. Salter, and James C. Tribble The Barnes Law Group LLC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laura K. Bonander and Wade H. Watson III Caldwell & Watson LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0989; S13A1189; S13A1190

    The appellant did not breach his fiduciary duty as trustee for the parties' parents' respective estates by serving as the co-chair of a university's capital campaign committee and donating $1M from

  • City of Statesboro v. Dickens

    Publication Date: 2013-09-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott W. Kelly Fulcher Hagler LLP, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard C. Kaufold Jr., Vidalia, for appellees.
    Case Number: S13A0910

    The trial court should have dismissed the petition for mandamus and damages to compel the City of Statesboro to issue a building permit for a partially completed garage on the petitioners' land, as

  • Bell v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-09-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rafe Banks III, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny A. Penn, District Attorney, Heather N. Dunn, James A. Dunn, Assistant District Attorneys, Cumming, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0703

    O.C.G.A. § 40-6-270 subsection a's requirements that one must stop at the scene of an accident and identify oneself do not violate a person's right against self-incrimin