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  • Kempson v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold A. Sturdivant Sullivan, Sturdivant & Ogletree, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Griffin, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Andrette Watson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0636

    Jury was authorized by the evidence to find that murder victim's 21-week fetus had reached the stage of quick

  • Hollis v. Hollis

    Publication Date: 2004-09-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent D. Sowerby, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas G. Smith, Darien, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0698

    Title to property in question was controlled by the parties' divorce decree, which specifically referred to the property and awarded it to the hu

  • Burgess v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Priya N. Lakhi, Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Andrette Watson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0883

    The codefendant's testimony that another accomplice told the defendant not to shoot the victim was admissible as part of the res g

  • Fielding v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Garrett Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Charles R. Sheppard, Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorneys, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0856

    Evidence of a previous murder and robbery was admissible to show the defendant's specific course and conduct and pattern of behavior in which he robbed and killed unarmed persons late at night who w

  • Bell v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Amy E. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0064

    The trial court erred under the recent decision in State v. Marlowe, 277 Ga. 383, 385-387 589 SE2d 69 2003, in sentencing the defendant for both sion of a knife during commission of murder and

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  • Tuff v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Perry, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0587

    Evidence that six different people saw the defendant strike his wife on the day or her murder was relevant to show his motive, intent and bent of mind in killin

  • Christian v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Anna E. Green, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0227

    The defe struck the victim and then drove him to a secluded spot where he shot and killed him after the victim could not come up with money to pay for drugs he received from the defe

  • Burchette v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rafe Banks III Banks, Stubbs, Neville & Cunat LLP, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip C. Smith, District Attorney, Rand J. Csehy and Penny A. Penn, Assistant District Attorneys, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03G1195

    Language that instructs the jury that a criminal case "must be decided by some jury" should be removed from the state's pattern Allen c

  • Cooke v. Cooke

    Publication Date: 2004-04-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. Terry, Sarah M. Shalf Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore LLP, James D. McGuire and Stanford N. Klinger McGuire, Crohan & Klinger PA, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: George S. Stern and David J. Beaudry Stern & Edlin PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04F0347

    The wife who currently resides in Britain is subject to jurisdiction under Georgia's domestic relations long-arm statute because she resided in Georgia from 1992 until at least 1997 and she purposel

  • Guthrie v. Guthrie

    Publication Date: 2004-04-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James G. Killough, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Martin L. Fierman, Eatonton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03G0915

    The interpretation of a settlement agreement, which a party seeks to enforce outside the parameters of the divorce proceeding, is strictly governed by the rules of contract constru