• Bloomfield v. Bloomfield

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert D. Boyd, John L. Collar Jr. Boyd Collar Knight LLC, and Jean M. Kutner, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John C. Mayoue, C. Wilbur Warner Jr. and J. Matthew Anthony Warner, Mayoue, Bates & Nolen PC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07F0096

    The children's trusts were entitled to cash compensation for their interests in real property, which the husband sold from a partnership to the husband and

  • Simmons v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ray C. Smith, Richmond Hill, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Durden Jr., District Attorney, Melissa L. Poole, Mark A. Hendrix, Assistant District Attorneys, Hinesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and David A. Zisook, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0429

    The defendant was one of three men, who lay in wait for the first victim to make a night deposit at a local bank, and opened fire with an AK-47, killin

  • State v. Hunter

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Ayana C. Curry, Assistant District Attorney, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: L. David Wolfe and Michael J. Antoniolli L. David Wolfe PC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0139

    Officer's affidavit provided a substantial basis for the magistrate to determine that probable cause existed to justify issuing a warrant to search the defendant's suspected home for evidence relat

  • Scott v. Scott

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clifton M. Patty Jr. Patty & Young LLC, Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher A. Townley Townley Law Office, Rossville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0246

    No part of the settlement agreement or divorce decree, to which the father consented, was void or otherwise contained a non-amendable d

  • In the Interest of C. S.

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Curtis A. Kleem McCamy, Phillips, Tuggle & Fordham LLP, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, , Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Bruce A. Kling, Meron Dagnew and Philip F. Woodward, Dalton, for appellee.

    Case Number: S06G1802

    The termination of the father's parental rights was reversed, since O.C.G.A. § § 15-11-96 c and 9-11-4 required that the father, who was incarcerated in Tennessee and received the petition and the

  • Duty Free Air and Ship Supply Co. v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry R. Bauer Jr. Bauer & Deitch PC, Emmet J. Bondurant, Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP and Mary C. Cooney, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Robert B. Caput and Michael S. Fineman Hartsfield/Jackson Int'l Airport, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: S07A0265

    The appellant was not entitled to a writ requiring the city to execute a contract for construction and operation of duty free shops at the city's international ai

  • McConnell v. Wright

    Publication Date: 2007-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Kendia, Joseph A. Conoscienti and Maureen E. Murphy Talley, French & Kendall PC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Russell D. Waldon, Kimberly A. McNamara Harper, Waldon & Craig, Rahmah A. Abdulaleem, Andrew T. Bayman, Althea Prince-Dublin King & Spalding, Charles A. Wiley Jr. Fain, Major, Wiley & Brennan PC, Wayne C. Wilson and Antoinette Wright, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: S06G2026

    The trial court abused its discretion in dismissing plaintiffs' injury suit arising from a vehicular accident as a sanction for the plaintiffs' failure to attend their scheduled deposition without

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-04-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Erickson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Brett E. Pinion, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0013

    The defendant and his co-defendant hit and kicked the victim to death over a dispute during a drug

  • Lee v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-04-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0331

    Given the charge as a whole, the trial court did not err in failing to give a sua sponte charge on ide

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-04-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Walker, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jewel C. Scott, District Attorney, Tiffany C. Boulware, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0277

    The defendant was not entitled to a recharge on the affirmative defenses when the jury asked for a recharge on malice and felony murder