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  • Sharpe v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-02-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Julayaun M. Waters, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and David A. Zisook, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A1883

    The trial court's Allen charge did not improperly coerce the jury, as the jury deliberated for a considerable time after the trial court gave the instruction and reaffirmed its verdict when p

  • Cook v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2010-12-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maurice L. King, Jr., Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Franklin T. Coleman III Perry & Walters LLP, Albany, for appellees.
    Case Number: S10A0831

    House Bill 563 is constitutional as applied to chairman of Randolph County Board of educ

  • American Int'l S. Ins. Co. v. Floyd

    Publication Date: 2010-12-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Trevor G. Heistand Harper, Waldon & Craig, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: F. Glenn Moffett Jr. Moffett Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10G1876

    Hospital liens imposed pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 44-14-470 b do not qualify as payment of other claims under O.C.G.A. § 33-7-11 b 1 D ii and thus cannot be used to reduce a tortfeasor's available cover

  • State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Adams

    Publication Date: 2010-12-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kimberly A. McNamara and Thomas D. Harder Harper, Walden & Craig, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clyde E. Rickard III Chambers, Aholt & Rickard LLP, Jane N. Wilkes, Sharon W. Ware Sharon W. Ware & Assocs., Atlanta, Ryan A. Johnson, Bryan M. Pulliam Bryan A. Pulliam LLC, Covington, William M. Cheves Jr. Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Columbus, Lauren R. Kruck and Rodney S. Shockley Downey & Cleveland, Marietta, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: Wallace Miller III, Macon, and Sonja R. Tate Fulcher Hagler LLP, Augusta. Amicus Appellee: John D. Hadden Turkheimer & Hadden LLC and Mathew G. Nasrallah Robertson, Bodoh & Nasrallah LLP, Marietta.
    Case Number: S09G1710

    Subtraction of a hospital lien from a tortfeasor's insurance coverage defeats the purpose of the Georgia uninsured motorist statute because the resulting increase in the beneficiary's uninsured moto

  • Newell Recycling of Atlanta Inc. v. Jordan Jones and Goulding

    Publication Date: 2010-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Fielder Martin, Jason A. Cooper Shapiro, Fussell, Wedge & Martin LLP and Stephen G. Lowe Adorno & Yoss, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert O. Fleming Jr., Joseph C. Staak and Kent P. Smith Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09G1974

    O.C.G.A. § 9-3-24's 6-year statute of limitation was controlling, since the statute on all simple contracts in writing is six

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  • Masters v. DeKalb County Bd. of Tax Assessors

    Publication Date: 2010-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard J. Dreger and Kenneth P. Robin, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Duane D. Pritchett and Stephen E. Whitted DeKalb County Law Department, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0905

    No authority allowed the appellant's husband, years later, to nullify the pre-existing tead exemption on their marital property, after he claimed a tead exemption on his new

  • Miller v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael L. Edwards, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry Chisolm, District Attorney, and Christine S. Barker, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10G0158

    A clearly erroneous standard of review applied to support the trial court's findings and reverse the Court of Appeals reversal of the trial court's grant of defendant's motion to suppress evi

  • Fair v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC and Elizabeth V. Rogan, Atlanta, for Fair. Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, and James S. Stokes, Atlanta, for Jolly. Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Kimberly S. Schwartz, Assistant District Attorney, Garrison A. Wood District Attorney's Office, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Laura J. Murphree Prosecuting Attorneys' Council, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S10A1034; S10A1035

    O.C.G.A. § 17-10-30 b 8 does not require the defendant's knowledge that the victim was a peace officer to impose a death penalty on a defendant, who killed a peace officer conducting a no-knock wa

  • O'Neal v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-11-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel F. Farnsworth W. Scott Smith PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10G0060

    Under O.C.G.A. § 17-8-75, the trial court has an independent duty to rebuke the prosecutor, give a curative instruction or grant a mistrial upon proper objection to the state's introduction of impro

  • Horton v. Horton

    Publication Date: 2010-11-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maxine Hardy, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kice H. Stone and Robert M. Mock Jr. Stone & Driggers LLC, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10F0827

    Evidence of a temporary order was inadmissible at the parties' divorce trial, because no evidence showed that the temporary order was necessary for impeachment purposes to prevent the husband from p