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  • In re D. H.

    Publication Date: 2008-06-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S08A0011

    O.C.G.A. § 20-2-1181-prohibiting disrupting or interfering with the operation of a public school-is not unconstitutionally vague, since the natural and obvious meaning of the statute's lan

  • Perera v. Miller

    Publication Date: 2008-06-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S08A0897

    The defendant could raise her pretrial claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and violation of her right to a speedy trial in her pending criminal a

  • Wall v. Thurman

    Publication Date: 2008-05-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S08A0549; S08A0550

    The trial court erred in sealing the record without a hearing and without making findings of fact regarding the balancing of public and private inte

  • Harrison v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-05-30
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    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S08A0406

    The defendant shot the victim in the back three times over a drug transaction, stuffed the victim's body in his own car, which he then set on fire in a secluded

  • State v. Underwood

    Publication Date: 2008-05-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S07G1511

    The coincidence that the officer had probable cause to arrest the defendant for a DUI violation and the defendant's actual arrest meant that the defendant was, as matter of law, ' "arre

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  • Ellison v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-05-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S08A0167

    The trial court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea after the term of court in which he enter

  • Rhodes v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-04-11
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    Case Number: S08A0196

    O.C.G.A. § 40-6-391 f-prohibiting sentencing under the First Offender Act in DUI cases-is not unconstitutional, since the legislative classification is rationally related to a legitimate gover

  • Miller v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-03-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S07A1848

    The trial court erred in sentencing the defendant for malice murder under O.C.G.A. § 17-10-7 c, which expressly excluded capital fel

  • Cobb v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-03-28
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    Case Number: S07A1291

    The state's firearms examiner's improper hearsay testimony regarding the type of gun a holster found in th ndant's apartment was intended to carry was the only evidence connecting t

  • Edwards v. Lewis

    Publication Date: 2008-03-07
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    Case Number: S07A1591

    The defendant's trial and appellate counsel were laboring under an actual conflict of interest, when they represented defendant, and they allowed the conflict of interest to affect their represe