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  • Jones v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Franklin G. Jones, Morrow, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nancy M. Smith, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06F0857

    In the absence of a transcript, the evidence presumably supported the trial court's award of sole physical custody to the

  • Rabun County v. Mountain Creeks Estates LLC

    Publication Date: 2006-07-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald A. Cronin Jr. O'Quinn & Cronin, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Cummings II Cummings & Dillard, Clayton, T. Michael Tennant, A. McCampbell Gibson and Christina H. Eikhoff Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A0042; S06A0043

    The county was entitled to immunity with regard to a subdivision's claim for damages arising out of the county's refusal to accept ownership of the subdivision's roads, because the subdivision did n

  • Widner v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Scott Key Sexton, Key & Hendrix PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and James L. Wright III, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0443; S06A1547

    Burchette v. State, 278 Ga. 1 2004, disapproving Allen charges such as the one give in this case, postdated defendant's trial and was not retroa

  • Coffey v. Fayette County

    Publication Date: 2006-07-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward A. Webb and G. Franklin Lemond Jr. Webb Law Group LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Dennis A. Davenport McNally, Fox & Grant PC, Fayetteville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A0055

    Court remanded for trial court to receive evidence and fully consider whether a provision of a Fayette county sign ordinance restricting the number and size of non-commercial signage in residential

  • Griffin v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Caleb B. Banks, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, Statesboro, Keith A. McIntyre, Assistant District Attorney, Springfield, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Laura D. Dyes, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0608

    The victim's statement to a close friend was admissible under the necessity exception to the hearsay rule and did not violated the defendant's confrontation right pursuant to Crawford v. Washington,

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  • Buttram v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-06-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek H. Jones, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amy H. McChesney, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0030

    An eyewitness saw the defendant enter the murder victims' home, heard several gunshots, saw defendant "come flying out the door" and drive away in the first victim'

  • State v. Arnold

    Publication Date: 2006-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and J. Bennett Threlkeld, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edith M. Edwards, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05G1871

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in removing the jury foreman for disrupting and preventing the ongoing deliberative process through the use of insult, slander and humili

  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Greco, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Ann B. Harris, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0586

    The defendant agreed to "stand over" the scene while her cousin shot and killed a store clerk and stole the clerk's credit

  • Grimes v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Renate D. Moody, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Elizabeth K. Bobbitt, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0276

    The trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion to bifurcate his trial with regard to the charge of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, since the possession charg

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Orin L. Alexis, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Margaret E. Heap, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0544

    The trial court did not err in charging that "if there is an interval of time between the provocation and the killing, the killing can be considered revenge and punished as murder," since the eviden