• Randolph County v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2007-06-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Franklin T. Coleman III Hodges, Erwin, Hedrick & Coleman LLP, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Maurice L. King Jr., Albany, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0328

    The appeal relating to the sufficiency of a nomination petition was moot after the election took

  • State v. Pless

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles A. Spahos, Solicitor General, and Gilbert A. Crosby, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: E. Suzanne Whitaker, McDonough, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Joseph H. Cowart Georgia Assoc. of Solicitors-General, Statesboro, Frederick D. Bright, District Attorney, Milledgeville, and Charles C. Olson Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Ga., Atlanta.

    Case Number: S06G1832

    The sentencing court had the general authority to order reimbursement of attorneys' fees as a reasonable condition of prob

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and David A. Zisook, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0724

    Trial counsel was not deficient for not calling a witness whom he feared might have informed the jury that the defendant suspected his wife of adultery prior to learning about it just before her

  • King v. Brock

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John G. Parker, William K. Whitner, Nathan L. Coppernoll Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, Atlanta, and Roy E. Barnes The Barnes Law Group LLC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Taylor W. Jones, Jenny E. Jensen, Richard E. Harris Jones, Jensen & Harris, John K. Larkins Jr. and David M. Stewart Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S06G1657

    An award of nominal damages in a contract action is sufficient to confer prevailing party status under a contractual fee-shifting prov

  • Fowler Props. Inc. v. Dowland

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Claxton and Darcy S. DuVal Claxton & Claxton LLC, Atlanta, for Fowler Properties and others. Lee W. Fitzpatrick Lee W. Fitzpatrick & Assocs. for Dowland. Amicus appellant: William V. Custer IV, Eric P. Schroeder Powell Goldstein LLP, Ned I Miltenberg Center for Constitutional Litigation PC, Washington D.C. Amicus appellee: Matthew G. Nasrallah Robertson, Bodoh & Nasrallah LLP, Marietta.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S07A0342; S07A0777

    OCGA § 9-11-68 is unconstitutional as a retrospectiv

  • Anderson v. Svard

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clark E. Gulley, Colbert, for appellant.
    for defendant: April Svard, Acworth, proceeded pro se.

    Case Number: S07A0593

    The trial court abused its discretion in awarding attorneys' fees to the wife, because the record was devoid of evidence of the parties' financial circumst

  • Walker v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Chad E. Jacobs and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: George T. Jackson Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0261

    The defendant's convictions for armed robbery, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault, burglary and a firearms offense vacated, since the state failed to produce to the defense audiotapes

  • Taylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin A. Davis Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Mark C. Post, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0404

    Legal documents relating to a dispute between the defendant and the victim were admissible to show the defendant's motive and i

  • Jacob v. Koslow

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony M. Zezima, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Ball Hasty, Pope & Ball LLP, Canton, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0517

    Buckholts v. Buckholts, 251 Ga. 58 1983 and Corbett v. Corbett, 236 Ga. App. 299 1999, do not generally expand jurisdiction in divorce cases to allow punishment of a husband or wife for contempt of

  • Kimbrough v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia F. Angeli, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jewel C. Scott, District Attorney, Anece B. White, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and David A. Zisook, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0446

    The trial court did not err in admitting evidence of a prior similar crime in which the defendant invaded a woman's home at night through a back window, attacked the woman, stole her personal items