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  • Washington v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Dowell, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Christine S. Barker, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General,, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0723

    The defendant was not entitled to a mistrial after a juror brought a newspaper into the jury room on the second day of trial, which contained a brief accounting of the first day's e

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Mobley II, Fortson, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Lew S. Barrow, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0661

    The defendant fatally shot the victim in the back of the head after robbing the victim and his several acquaint

  • Escobar v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin M. Del Mazo, Lilburn, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Lawrenceville, District Attorney, David B. Fife, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0798

    The defendant entered a local brothel, robbed three patrons at gunpoint and shot them, killin

  • Hayes v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric J. Taylor, Kenneth D. Kondritzer and Stephen R. Scarborough, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Anne E. Green, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1308

    The defendant was not entitled to a charge on character or prior conduct in the absence of a written re

  • Lewis v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth W. Krontz, Douglasville, Michael Mears Georgia Indigent Defense Counsel and Lindsey N. Bennett Georgia Capital Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, Paul J. Miovas Jr., Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant District Attorneys, Douglasville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Susan B. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05P0906

    There is no constitutional or statutory prohibition against imposition of a death sentence where the defendant is competent, but mentall

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  • Burton-Callaway v. Carroll County Bd. of Elections

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary P. Bunch, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert F. Dangle Price, Pyles, Dangle, Parmer & Rooks PC, and David A. Basil, Carrollton, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A0828

    The referendum that shortened the appellant's term as a member Carroll county Board of Education was invalid, since it affirmatively misrepresented that it would provide for the continuation

  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reed Edmondson Jr., Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Monroe, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0870

    The state properly authenticated a 911 audiotape of a caller reporting that the defendant was beating the victim, who later died of a bacterial infection arising from the treatment for blood clots o

  • Screven County Planning Comm'n v. Southern States Plantation LLLP

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Hubert Reeves III, Millen, Frank E. Jenkins III and Brandon L. Bowen Jenkins & Olson PC, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Stephen T. Rushing and Wesley C. Taulbee Franklin, Taulbee, Rushing, Snipes & Marsh, Statesboro, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A0202

    The evidence did not support the trial court's ruling that appellee's proposed subdivision would not have a significant impact on the traffic in the

  • Murphy v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kipler S. Lamar and Jeanne D. Harrison Harrison & Lamar, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorneys, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0559

    Evidence of the victim's prior acts of violence against third persons was properly excluded, since the record did not show that the defendant complied with the notice requirements of Uniform Superio

  • Love v. Money Tree Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph F. Simpson, Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: . George C. Floyd Lambert, Floyd & Conger, Bainbridge, and David G. Crockett, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Ben Kirbo Kirbo, Kendrick & Bell LLC, Bainbridge. Other party representation: William S. Stone, Kevin T. Butler Boone & Stone, Blakely, Antoinette D. Johnson Boone & Stone, Atlanta, and David R. Mellon Sirote & Permutt PC, Birmingham, Ala.
    Case Number: S04G1474

    O.C.G.A. § 9-9-2 c 3 acted to invalidate insurance company's arbitration agreement with its in