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  • Winfield v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Casto Bennett & Casto PC, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julia A. F. Slater, District Attorney, Danielle F. Forte, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0939

    The defendant entered the victim's hotel room and severely beat him to collect a drug debt and teach him a lesson and the victim died from his inj

  • Turner v. Trammel

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry S. Mayfield Smith, Welch & Brittain LLP, Barnesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard L. Collier, Griffin, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09A1147

    In this quia timet action, some evidence supported the jury's ve

  • Ellis v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald J. Ellington Virgil L. Brown & Associates, Zebulon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Robert W. Smith Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0767

    Under the circumstances, the defendant's guilty plea to a charge of felony cruelty to children barred his subsequent prosecution for aggravated assault arising from the same inc

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-08-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Oliver J. Browning Jr., Buchanan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Brooks Jr., District Attorney, Craig E. Miller, Assistant District Attorney, Buchanan, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0224

    An officer pursuing the defendant, an escaped prisoner, collided with another car at an intersection, killing the vehicle's d

  • Carter v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-07-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles E. W. Barrow, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, Elberton, James A. Carmichael, Assistant District Attorney, Hartwell, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Mary K. Ware, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0228

    The defendant fatally shot his brother in the head as his brother was running away fro

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  • Tuvim v. United Jewish Communities

    Publication Date: 2009-06-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roger C. Wilson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James T. White Sites & Harbison PLLC, Craig M. Frankel, Adam R. Gaslowitz, LeAnne M. Gilbert, Millie Baumbusch Gaslowitz Frankel LLC, Nancy H. Baughan Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, Wayne Byers, Atlanta, and C. Lee Davis Bailey Davis LLC, Marietta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09A0006

    The defendant could not properly be named as a third-party beneficiary of the decedent's estate pursuant to Financial Institutions Code of Ge

  • Porter v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-05-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg Georgia Capital Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and David A. Zisook, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0514

    The defendant ran toward the victim without provocation and shot him at least four

  • Crosby v. Lebert

    Publication Date: 2009-05-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Penny D. Furr, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin J. McDonough, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0061

    Periodic alimony terminates under O.C.G.A. § 19-6-4 b upon the payee's remar

  • Watkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-05-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald S. Boyter Jr. Georgia Justice Project, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Grady A. Moore, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0472

    The trial court did not err in crediting a juror's testimony that no extrajudicial experimentation occurred during trial over defense counsel's contrary testimony at the new trial he

  • Currid v. DeKalb State Court Probation Dept.

    Publication Date: 2009-04-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles A. Mathis Jr. The Mathis Law Firm, Clinton W. Sitton and Samuel L. Starks Martin & Jones, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Wade W. Mitchell, R. Carl Cannon and Jena S. Tarabula Constangy, Brooks & Smith LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S08G0322

    Sovereign immunity barred the plaintiffs' wrongful death action against DeKalb State Court Probation Department and DeKalb County Public Works Department after the decedent fell from the back of a s