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  • McNaughton v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-05-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer A. Trieshmann Public Defender's Office, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Kevin T. McMurry, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0322

    The defendant fatally stabbed his wife in the torso, arms and legs 31 times as she sat in the office of their

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-05-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Grossman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Anna G. Cross, Grady A. Moore, Assistant District Attorneys, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Dana E. Weinberger, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0784

    The defendant failed to show that the state acted with discriminatory intent in peremptorily striking a juror, where the state explained that it struck the juror because he was combative and relucta

  • Clay v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-03-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph W. Vigneri, Atlanta, and Jason R. Clark, Georgia Capital Defender, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jacquelyn L. Johnson, District Attorney, Woodbine, Jonathan R. Miller III, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, Andrew J. Ekonomou The Lambros Firm LLC, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11A1956

    The trial court erred in concluding that the defendant's audio-recorded custodial interview was admissible in the state's case-in-chief even though it was obtained in violation of Mi

  • Tate v. Howerton

    Publication Date: 2012-03-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore Mercer Law School, Andrew W. Mahler Mercer Law Sch., Macon, J. Scott Key, McDonough, William E. Hoffmann Jr., Darrick L. McDuffie King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0087

    The state conceded that the habeas court failed to address the defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of co

  • James v. Intown Ventures LLC

    Publication Date: 2012-03-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Francis X. Moore and Lindsey L. Walker Frank X. Moore & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Adam C. Caskey and John C. Clark Clark Caskey Inc., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11A1705

    The trial court erred by giving res judicata effect to the quiet title judgment and granting summary judgment to the real estate developer in spite of the affidavit evidence that the occupant was no

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  • Hammond v. Hammond

    Publication Date: 2012-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carol A. Walker, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly A. Miles and Keith J. Whitaker Smith, Gilliam, Williams & Miles PA, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11F1978

    The wife could not complain of any error in the trial court's failure to utilize the time rule formula in determining the parties' interest in her husband's pension, since she induced the error in u

  • Final Exit Network Inc. v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2012-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert G. Rubin Peters, Rubin & Sheffield PA, Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Bruce S. Harvey, L. David Wolfe, Atlanta, and Robert Rivas Sachs Sax Caplan PL, Tallahassee, Fla., for appellant.
    for defendant: . Penny A. Penn, District Attorney, Cumming, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11A1960

    O.C.G.A. § 16-5-5 b-providing that any person ' "who publicly advertises, offers, or holds himself or herself out as offering that he or she will intentionally and actively assist another person in

  • State v. Prescott

    Publication Date: 2012-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, and Keith A. McIntyre, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: William D. Hoffer, Stuart H. H. Patray and Robert L. Persse Public Defender's Office, Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11G1407

    The state proved venue in Screven county in this child molestation case through circumstantial evi

  • Hatley v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Darrell B. Reynolds Sr., Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, and Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11A1617

    Even if the trial court erroneously ed the child victim's hearsay statements to the forensic interviewer and the child and mother's statements to police at the scene of the crime, any error in

  • DeFoor v. DeFoor

    Publication Date: 2012-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P. McFarland Sr. McFarland & McFarland PC, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Clifford S. Lancey, Ellijay, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11A1977

    Evidence supported the jury's verdict finding that the appellee established title by adverse possession to 6.5 acres of land to which his deceased grandmother was the record title h