• Rainer v. State of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ann M. Fitz The Federal Law Group, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Joseph J. Drolet, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Paige E. Boorman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: S09A1900

    O.C.G.A. § 42-1-12-requiring the ant to register as a sex offender upon his convictions for robbery and false imprisonment of a minor-does not violate substantive due process as applied to the

  • King v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin H. Eaves, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Michelle C. McIntire, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S10A0245

    Defendant presented nothing for review on appeal, because defendant did not mention any concern that juror may have influenced other jurors nor did she assert that she was denied a fair and imparti

  • Manley v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, appellants. Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S10A0136, S10A0137

    In some cases, defendants may present an objective and significant disparity in parol eligibility on cross-examination of a state's wi

  • Canty v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Persse Public Defender's Office, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, and W. Scott Brannen, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: S09G1465

    The defendant's confession was involuntary and inadmissible, because he only implicated himself after being told by a detective that his cooperation could result in a shorter

  • Davis v. Dunn

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joan P. Davis, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregg E. Litchfield, Douglas R. Haynie and Daniel W. White Haynie, Litchfield & Crane PC, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S09A2056

    Evidence supported the trial court's ruling that the appellant asserted claims in her challenge to the election of a county superior court judge, which exhibited ' "such a complete absence of any ju

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  • Thomas v. Lee

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley E. Harris Jr. Duffy & Feemster LLC, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard K. Strickland and Paul M. Scott Brown Readdick Bumgartner Carter, Brunswick, for appellees.

    Case Number: S10A0584

    The plaintiff was an at-will employee with no property interest in her employment, who was subject to termination without

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Johnson Jr., Glennville, proceeded pro se. Richard R. Read, District Attorney, Debra M. Sullivan, Roberta A. Earnhardt, Assistant District Attorneys, Conyers, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S09A1759

    The defendant entered his guilty plea to murder, aggravated assault, family violence battery, cruelty to children and arson freely and voluntarily with a full understanding of what the plea connoted

  • Stepp v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer W. DeBaun, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., Solicitor General, and Sophia E. Haynes, Assistant Solicitor General, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S09G0997

    Double jeopardy did not bar the defendant's subsequent prosecution for misdemeanor reckless conduct after her conviction for violating DeKalb County Ordinance § 5-2 a, because different facts must b

  • Ellis v. Ellis

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George H. Law III Whitmer & Law, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carol S. Sheppard, Dahlonega, Vic B. Hill and Brad E. McDonald Hill-MacDonald LLC, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S09F1798

    By failing to file a responsive pleading, the wife waived any right to notice regarding the final hearing on the di

  • Muhammad v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Alexander III, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sheila E. Gallow, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S09A1852

    The defendant removed a nozzle from a gas pump, sprayed the victim with gasoline and lit her on fire, causing the victim to die from her burns approximately one month