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  • Burns v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen J. Anderson, Winder, and Donna A. Seagraves, Jefferson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Jefferson, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, for appellee James B. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jefferson, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1512

    The trial court did not violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment confrontation right by allowing a police officer to testify about his co-defendant's ment because the jury was instructed that th

  • Joyner v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald O. Nelson, Townsend, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Durden Jr., District Attorney, Joe G. Skeens, Assistant District Attorney, Hinesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Laurie M. Hughes, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1990

    The trial court did not err in admitting a videotape showing the victim's bound and decomposed body where the evidence clearly established the defendant's participation in the c

  • Tollette v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James A. Elkins Jr. and Michael D. Reynolds, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, David R. Helmick, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Christopher D. Helms, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05P1114

    The trial court's error in overruling the defendant's objection to the prosecutor's argument regarding the defendant's eligibility for parole was harmless, given the fact that life without parole wa

  • Schofield v. Palmer

    Publication Date: 2005-11-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Sabrina D. Graham, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for Schofield. Thomas H. Dunn, Atlanta, for Palmer. Other party representation: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Augusta.
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    Case Number: S05A1182; S05X1319

    The state violated Brady by suppressing evidence showing that the GBI paid a key witness $500 for providing information implicating the defendant in the 1995 murder of his estranged wife and stepdau

  • Agee v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry A. Hibbert Cromwell & Hibbert, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0873

    The defendant shot the victim in the back of the head after losing to him in a basketball

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  • Hodges v. Callaway

    Publication Date: 2005-11-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley Karsman Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman, and Thomas A. Nash Jr., Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: William J. Neville Jr. Callaway, Neville & Brinson, Claxton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1436

    The decedent could revoke the 1974 will she made jointly with her husband, since there was no express language or contract stating that the parties intended for their will to be m

  • Kappelmeier v. Winegarden

    Publication Date: 2005-11-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gottfried A. Kappelmeier, Norcross, proceeded pro se. Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Rebecca S. Mick and Kristin L. Miller, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S05A1292; S05A1293

    Mandamus is not an available r to seek review of a trial court's ruling, which is subject to appellate review, because the availability of judicial review is an adequate legal r

  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher D. Green, Edgefield, proceeded pro se. Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Waycross, for appellee. Other party representation: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore Georgia Pub. Defender Council, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S05A1006

    Plea counsel's affidavit fell short of showing that the defendant was fully aware of all of the constitutional rights he was wa

  • Patel v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurence H. Margolis, Margolis Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0941

    The defendant was not entitled to a jury instruction on use of force in defense of habitation under O.C.G.A. § 16-3-23 1, since no evidence showed that the victim entered the defendant's inventory s

  • Ramirez v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William G. Quinn III Willis & Quinn PC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker, James M. McDaniel, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0664

    A violation of the terms of the Vienna Convention does not require the exclusion of evi