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  • Ballard v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis M. Turchiarelli, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Jesse D. Evans, Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellant. Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1620

    The defendant stabbed her boyfriend in the abdomen with a knife during an argument and the victim died of his w

  • Hamilton v. Renewed Hope Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Francis X. Moore and Beth E. Rogers Frank X. Moore & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert J. Proctor, Bradley A. Hutchins, Christopher M. Porterfield, Adam C. Caskey Proctor, Chambers & Hutchins, and Overtis H. Brantley, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1053

    The defendant exercised reasonable diligence in attempting to locate the plaintiff and provide her with notice of the foreclose of her right to redeem a condom, which was sold for the non-payment of

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, 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, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1567

    The defendant shot and killed the first victim after she told him to stop hitting the second victim in the head with

  • Plymel v. Teachers Retirement Sys.

    Publication Date: 2006-11-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hardy Gregory Jr., David A. Forehand Jr. Davis & Forehand, Cordele, and Bobby L. Cook Cook & Connelly, Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Annette M. Cowart, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1280

    O.C.G.A. § 47-3-23 b requires the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia's actuary to investigate the system at last every five hears and to recommend new mortality tables to the board of trustees to

  • Veal v. Veal

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony M. Zezima, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Claude M. Kicklighter Jr. & Gregory S. Reeves Ratchford & Kicklighter LLP, Springfield, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06F1460

    O.C.G.A. § 19-7-22 does not provide a means for a step-parent to legitimate a

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  • McNeal v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan A. Welch, Millen, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1459

    The defendant offered only hearsay statements about the expected testimony of witnesses his counsel allegedly failed to locate for

  • Orr v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Beauvais Zipperer, Lorberbaum & Beauvais, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Ann M. Elmore, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1202

    A portion of a 911 recording, in which in which an unknown third party stated the defendant's name, was not admissible as part of the res g

  • Phillips v. Hanse

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Sleppy, Edward E. Strain III Cathey & Strain, Cornelia, and Matthew T. Allen, Santa Ynez, Calif., for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert D. Ware, Rolesia B. Dancy and Overtis H. Brantley County Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06G0632

    The defendant's decision to engage in a high-speed chase constituted a discretionary act, even though he allegedly violated several provisions in a county police m

  • Walker v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward W. Clary, St. Marys, and Richard O. Allen, Atlantic Beach, Fla., for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, George C. Turner Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Woodbine, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Patricia B. A. Burton, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Holly L. Geerdes, Georgia Capital Defender, Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr., and Richard A. Malone Prosecuting Attorneys' Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S06P0992

    The state's failure to include the statutory aggravating circumstances in its notice of intent to seek the death penalty was harmless, since one of the statutory circumstances on which the state rel

  • Chenoweth v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wystan B. Gets Oakhurst Law Group of Getz LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Donald P. Geary, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0773

    The defendant admitted to two acquaintances that he robbed some people and shot one of them and, when officers arrested defendant for an unrelated crime seven hours after the shooting, the defendant