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  • Miller v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce S. Harvey, Larry D. Wolfe and Michael B. Syrop, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, Rosemary Kittrell, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0626

    The defendant followed the victim off a school bus, struck him in the back of the head and hit and kicked him after he fell to the ground, causing massive brain damage and the victim's

  • Marshall v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas J. Gustinella, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Benjamin B. Reed, Jerome M. Rothschild Jr., Assistant District Attorneys, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jennifer S. Gill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1053

    After being wounded in a drive-by shooting, the defendant and another man approached the suspected shooter on the premise of acquiring drugs, shot him when he got into their car, dumped him onto the

  • Snuggs v. Snuggs

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven G. Early, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard W. Schiffman Jr., Kurt A. Kegel Davis, Matthews & Quigley PC and Scott I. Zucker Weissmann & Zucker PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S02A0758

    The plaintiff stated a claim for breach of an oral, implied advanced education trust since he alleged that his mother admitted holding the trust property and intended to use it for her own personal

  • Dillingham v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1208

    An inaccessible witness's testimony from defendant's prior mistrial was admissible under O.C.G.A. § 24-3-10 and did not violate defendant's confrontation

  • Keller v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas J. Thomas, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amelia G. Pray and W. Thomas Weathers III, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02G0572

    Defendant could not appeal his convictions until the trial court entered a written sentence on each count of his multi-count indic

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  • Grady County Bd. of Educ. v. Hickerson

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas L. Lehman Lehman & Cauley LLP, Cairo, for appellant.
    for defendant: F. Bradford Wilson Jr. Adams, Hemingway & Wilson LLP, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0641

    The county board of education must either affirm or reverse an independent tribunal's finding that the termination of the county school superintendent's employment was without

  • Parks v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carla J. Friend, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Thomas S. Robinson III Fulton County Courthouse, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0815

    The defendant and his two co-defendants fatally shot the victims and took their money and

  • Hubbard v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    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, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jennifer S. Gill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1102

    Defendant was not entitled to a separate trial for similar crimes that occurred on the same night, in the same neighborhood, with the same guns and accomp

  • Phillips v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0932

    The trial court's error in admitting a witness's videotaped statement to police under the necessity exception to the hearsay rule was harmless since it was cumulative of other testimony from other w

  • Morris v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0972

    The defendant's confession to a clergyman who was a longtime friend and father figure was not privileged since he was seeking only the help of a respected friend, not comfort or solace of a spiritua