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  • Mills v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donna A. Seagraves, Jefferson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0090

    The defendant's convic for felony murder and vehicular homicide were not mutually exclusive, since the crimes were based on separate and distinct underlying ac

  • Gabriel v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel N. Shiver, Royston, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, Hartwell, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0259

    The defendant was not in custody when he made first statement at the crime scene and he made his second statement after he voluntarily agreed to go to the sheriff's office where he was not handcuff

  • Wiggins v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher P. Twyman Cox, Byington, Corwin, Niedrach, Smith & Twyman, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05G1215

    With regard to crimes allegedly committed while in the performance of his duties as a police officer, the defendant had the right to be present with counsel during the presentation of the state's e

  • Willoughby v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Victor A. McLemore, East Point, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina A. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A2051

    Evidence that that defendant was a gang leader and that he elevated his co-defendant's rank shortly after the victim's murder was admissible to show the defendant's m

  • Shepherd v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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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, James M. McDaniel, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Sabrina D. Rhinehart and James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Pub. Defender Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S05A1561

    Verdicts finding the defendant not guilty by reason of insanity of the malice murder of his sister and guilty but mentally ill of the felony murder of the same victim were not mutually excl

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  • Taetle v. Atlanta Indep. Sch. Sys.

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven K. Leibel and Jonathan R. Granade Casey Gilson Leibel PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rodney G. Moore and Charles M. Smith Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A1632

    An arms-length commercial agreement between a public school system and a church for classroom space to establish and run a public non-sectarian kindergarten does not violate Georgia's Establishment C

  • Marks v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teddy R. Price, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, and Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1729

    The defendant had no First Amendment right to hold himself out as an attorney, when he was unqualified to practic

  • Smelser v. Smelser

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amy K. Waggoner and Alyse Aussenberg Aussenberg Waggoner LLP, Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William D. Healan Jr., Winder, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05F1490

    The trial court did not err in awarding the wife a 1/2-interest in the husband's non-marital property as alimony based on its determination that the wife had a diminished earning cap

  • Henderson v. Gandy

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew R. Kirschner Kirschner & Venker PC, Atlanta, and Michael W. McElroy, Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Ashley P. Nichols Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Simuel F. Doster Jr., Paul E. Weathington, Robert T. Strang III, and Wayne D. Toth Allen &Weathington PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05G0674

    To maintain a legally sufficient claim under the Georgia Fair Business Practices Act against a health care provider, a plaintiff must allege that an entrepreneurial or business aspect of the provisi

  • Westmoreland v. Westmoreland

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas D. Slade Sr., Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Albert F. Burkhalter Jr. Burkhalter, Pierce & Marion, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1911

    The decedent did substantially all that he could do to effectuate a change of the beneficiary on his retirement plan before his death, since he went to the city's human resource department, requeste