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  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-10-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Danielle P. Roberts and Tony L. Axam AXAMLAW, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, Michael T. Muldrew, Senior Assistant District Attorney, and Keith A. McIntyre, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10G0310

    Double jeopardy barred the defendant's retrial for the greater offense of felony murder, even though the defendant successfully appealed her voluntary manslaughter conviction based on a Batson viol

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-10-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry D. Wolfe and Michael J. Antoniolli L. David Wolfe PC, Atlanta, for Brown. Anthony T. Pete The Pete Firm PC, Chamblee, for Waters. Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Senior Assistant District Attorney, James G. Banks, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S10A1332, S10A1333

    The presumptively prejudicial delay in both cases did not cause either defendant prejudice, which significantly impaired his defense on murder and related ch

  • Reliance Equities v. Special Equity Partners

    Publication Date: 2010-10-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allison C. Jett Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Koval, Peachtree City, and John A. B. Ayoub Ayoub & Mansour LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0900

    The superior court was authorized to find that appellant did not redeem the tax deed in question and, therefore, was not entitled to contribution from app

  • Scoggins v. Collins

    Publication Date: 2010-10-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. King, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Stanley Byars, Riverdale, Deana L. Simon-Johnson and Joseph R. Buller III Insley & Race LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S10A1329

    The appellants failed to make any showing, which would place the results of the Ward I and Ward 3 city of Riverdale council races in

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-10-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher S. Warren Kenneth S. Nugent PC, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory W. Edwards, District Attorney, Albany, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0793

    An attorney's lack of experience alone does not constitute grounds for ineffective assistance, especially, where, as here, an experienced criminal attorney assists trial co

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  • Ray v. Stewart

    Publication Date: 2010-10-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Floyd E. Propst III, Harry W. MacDougald, Jeremy M. Moeser Caldwell & Watson LLP, and John S. Olczak, Atlanta, for appellant. Timothy J. Burson Bovis, Kyle & Burch, Atlanta, William F. Rucker, Decatur, Opal Stewart, College Park, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S10A1052

    O.C.G.A. § 29-5-81 b-addressing which persons are entitled to receive actual notice of a final settlement of a conservator's accounts and discharge from liability-is not unconstitutional on the bas

  • HNTB Georgia Inc. v. Hamilton King

    Publication Date: 2010-08-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Brown Jr., Steven G. Blackerby Brown Readdick Bumgartner Carter, Brunswick, and Gregory H. Wheeler Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for HNTB Georgia Inc. and Plant Improvement Co.. Robert S. Kraeuter, Brent J. Savage, Kathryn H. Pinckney, Martha W. Williams Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman, Savannah, and Nathan T. Williams Clark & Williams PC, Brunswick, for Hamilton-King.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S09G1219; S09G1224

    The trial court properly excluded the plaintiffs' expert engineering witness, since his conclusions on construction traffic control plans were unreliable under Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals

  • See v. Mitchell

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Millie Baumbusch, Craig M. Frankel and Robert P. Marcovitch Gaslowitz Frankel LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Gwenn D. Holland Holland Schaeffer Roddenberry Blitch LLP, Robert M. Sneed Jr. McConnell & Sneed LLC, Charles J. Hampton, Atlanta, Rudolph T. Gordon Shriver & Gordon PC, Woodstock, and E. Wycliffe Orr Sr. Orr Brown Johnson LLP, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0858

    Those persons and entities named in the first paragraph of Item IV of the decedent's last will and testament, having survived her, are to receive her residuary estate, after first receiving their sp

  • City of Houston v. Horizon Communities

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas M. Mitchell Carothers & Mitchell LLC, Buford, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John E. Stell Jr. Russell, Stell, Smith & Mattison PC, Winder, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A1107

    A 2005 ordinance, which obligated the appellees to dedicate a pump station to the city, gave the appellees a clear right to reimbursement of costs from the city for the portion of the pump station i

  • Saint v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert A. Mullins Mullins Law Firm PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William J. Williams, Wendell E. Johnston Jr. Johnston, Wilkin & Williams and J. Carleton Vaughn Jr., Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0982

    A conveyance to three parties as tenants in common should be viewed and upheld as such, even though the decedent's will devised the property to the three parties in designated parcels, since all thr