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  • Wallace v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Glenn Richardson Vinson, Talley, Richardson & Cable PA, Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Waycross, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0104

    The defendant was not prejudiced by his counsel's failure to object to comments on his right to remain s

  • Guyton v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia A. Buttaro, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, James E. Hardin, Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0024

    On motion for reconsideration, decision vacated and reissued to change Divis

  • Griffies, Clerk v. Coweta County

    Publication Date: 2000-06-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael G. Kam Kam & Ebersbach PC, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: H. Lane Young II, Kimberly A. Houston and Carl H. Anderson Jr. Hawkins & Parnell LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Charles W. Byrd Walker, Hulbert, Gray & Byrd, Perry.
    Case Number: S00A0130

    After county commission had approved elected official's budget, it did not have unilateral authority to disapprove her purchase of bottled water for her empl

  • Jeffries v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David S. West and Bruce S. Harvey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0527

    Even if defense counsel should have objected when the detective said he did not have "the wrong guy," defendant was not prejudiced in light of the overwhelming evidence of his

  • Bergeson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David M. Rosenberg and David E. Ralston, Blue Ridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roger G. Queen, District Attorney, William B. Britt, Assistant District Attorney, Ellijay, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0046

    The trial court was not required to sequester the jury during the defendant's murder trial, because the state did not seek the death pe

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  • Jaxo v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William R. Thompson Jr., Calhoun, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Calhoun, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0348

    Defendant's waiver of his rights was valid even though his native language was Spanish because he demonstrated his ability to converse and understand En

  • Stone v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Russell J. Parker, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0314

    The defendant was not entitled to have an out-of-state att conduct portions of his trial because he was already represented by a competent Georgia att

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George A. Bessonette, Homerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, Robert R. Auman, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Cairo, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0075

    Defendant claim that venire members were likely to know persons associated with the crimes of the state's investigation without more did not entitled him to a change of venue based on excessive pret

  • Guyton v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia A. Buttaro, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, James E. Hardin, Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0024

    The victim's in-court identification was not tainted by her pretrial identification of the defendant after she pulled his picture from a detective's file without prom

  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jon V. Forehand Allen & Forehand, Moultrie, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, Andrew W. Pope, Assistant District Attorney, Moultrie, Charles M. Stines, Cairo, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wesley S. Wood, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0563

    The defendant was not entitled to a charge on eyewitness identification in the absence of a contention at trial that a witness misidentifie