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  • O'Bryant v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: E. Duane Jones King & Jones, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Thomas Morgan III, District Attorney, and Noah H. Pines, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1821

    Defendant failed to show by a preponderance of the evidence that she was not in the demanding state at the time of the commission of the

  • Pimper v. State of Ga., ex rel. Simpson

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Brinson, C. King Askew, J. Anderson Davis, Mark M. Webb Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis, Rome, Theodore J. Sawicki, John G. Goselin II, Craig H. Kuglar Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, and Edward D. Tolley Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael LLP, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Andrew J. Ekonomou, Michael G. Lambros Ekonomou, Atkinson & Lambros LLC, Lewis E. Hassett Morris, Manning & Martin, John E. Floyd Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, William Q. Bird William Q. Bird & Assocs., Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, David S. McLaughlin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Stephen D. Smith Jr. Smith, Price & Wright, Edward Hine Jr., and Fred R. Simpson, Acting District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0946

    The Bankruptcy Court had exclusive jurisdiction over defendants' l of the denial of their motion to dissolve an ex parte temporary restraining order and receivership order to the extent that th

  • Kennedy v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Thomaston, Daniel A. Hiatt, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0768

    Trial counsel was not deficient for failing to request a charge regarding the victim's prior violent conduct toward the defendant and others since the trial court gave a complete charge on justifica

  • Washington v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold S. Gulliver, 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 Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1402

    Defendant failed to show how additional pre-trial communication with defense counsel would have changed the outcome of his

  • Shadix v. Carroll County

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary P. Bunch, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard A. Carothers, Thomas M. Mitchell Carothers & Mitchell LLC, Buford, David A. Basil, Carrollton, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Daniel M. Formby, Deputy Attorney General, and David A. Runnion, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S01G0570

    The of Appeals erroneously applied the law of the case doctrine to an issue that was neither considered nor decided by the Supreme

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  • Brooks v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John H. Tarpley Lynch & Shulman LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Thomas Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Andrette Watson, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1414

    Defendant shot the murder victim three times while the victim lay on a

  • Abellera v. Williamson

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel S. Reinhardt and William M. Droze Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James L. Ford Sr. Ford & Barnhart LLP and Carl A. Crowley III Crowley, Appel, Starkey & Holdbrook, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S00G1957

    In reversing the grant of summary judgment to defendants, the Court of Appeals failed to looked at other grounds raised by the defendants to determine if the trial court's judgment was right for any

  • Wright v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard M. Darden, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton, Jr., District Attorney, Kimberly D. Rowden, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1176

    Defendant shot the victim in the back and side after the victim accused him of stealing a video game and fired a shot over defendant's

  • Lackes v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William S. Callahan, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Angel Wheeler, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Daphne M. Walker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1114

    Double jeopardy did not bar defendant's retrial for murder and other related crimes because he was granted a new trial based on an erroneous evidentiary r

  • Evans v. Palmour

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew H. Patton, A. Kimbrough Davis and Jill Warner Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Albert C. Palmour Jr., Solicitor General, Johnny R. Dennis Albert Palmour, Summerville, G. Wayne Hillis and Aaron W. Lipson Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1007

    Georgia law does not require a testator to identify his/her future spouse in a valid in contemplation of marriage c