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  • Rivers v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S07A1541

    The defendant offered nothing more than speculation for the proposition that, had trial counsel been successful in introducing impeachment evidence, there was a reasonable probability that the jury

  • Curry v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S07A1333

    The defendant shot the murder victim nine times without provoc

  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S07A1779

    Arson conviction served as the underlying felony for the defendant's felony murder conviction and merged into that conviction for sentencing pur

  • Sutton v. Sanders

    Publication Date: 2008-02-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S07A1321

    The transcript of the defendant's 1993 plea colloquy did not show that defendant was advised of his constitutional right to jury trial before pleading guilty to state drug ch

  • Blige v. Blige

    Publication Date: 2008-02-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S07F1817

    The husband actively hid the fact that he had $150K in cash in his possession when the parties signed their antenuptial agre

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  • Bradley v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S07A1706

    The defendant admittedly shot the victim in the back, hip and hand outside a of convenience

  • Denson v. Frazier

    Publication Date: 2008-02-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S09A0079

    The state failed to show that Denson knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily waved his right against self-incrimin

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S08A1955

    Evidence of gun ownership does not, in and of itself, impute bad char

  • First Christ Holiness Church Inc. v. Owens Temple First Christ Holiness Church Inc.

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
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    Case Number: S07A1441

    The trial court's order was a dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction for the plaintiffs' failure to comply with O.C.G.A. § 9-11-17, which was not immediately appealable due

  • Humphrey v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2007-11-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, And Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for Humphrey, Warden in S07A1481. Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, and Franklin J. Hogue Hogue & Hogue, Macon, for Wilson. James D. McDade, District Attorney, Douglasville, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for the State in S07A1606. Amicus appellee: David Balser McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, and Cleve L. Molette, East Point.
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    Case Number: S07A1481; S07A1606

    The defendant's 10-year sentence without possibility of parole for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old when defendant was 17 constituted cruel and unusual punis