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  • Ward v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel W. Cruse, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Raina J. Nadler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0739

    The defendant failed to show that his custodial statement was inadmissible simply because the interviewing officer instructed officers at jail not to allow the defendant to have any visitors or make

  • Mason v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maurice Brown, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1286

    The defendant was not entitled to a separate trial based on his contention that he and his co-defendants had antagonistic defenses, in the absence of a showing of clear prej

  • Williams v. Screven Wood Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan A. Welch, Millen, for appellant.
    for defendant: R. Hubert Reeves III, Millen, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A0920

    The defendants knew that the plaintiff's claimed entire 89-acre tract of land adversely to their interest since at least 1966, when their predecessor-in-interest visited a lawyer to discuss options

  • Dorsey v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, and Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn R. Keyes, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, and John E. Floyd Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S05A0897

    The state was entitled to theorize to the jurors that former DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey killed Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown in order to prevent Brown from investigating and uncovering evidenc

  • Blue v. Blue

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dale A. Wren Carlisle, Wren, McClurg LLP, Sugar Hill, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harry H. Harkins Jr., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05F0825

    The appellant had the responsibility to ensure that her divorce proceedings were transc

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  • Adkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Beauvais and Eric R. Gotwalt Zipperer, Lorderbaum & Beauvais, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Isabel M. Pauley, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0840

    The defendant admitted that he was one of three men who participated in a drive-by shooting in which the victim was k

  • General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. State of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2005-06-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Barwick, Thomas M. Byrne and Valerie S. Sanders Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew T. Jones, Gary D. Bergman Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Ga., Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, and William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04G1945

    The state cannot contend that an interest h consents to illicit use of its property if the state is unwilling to press charges based on the same allegations it relates to the interest h

  • Mays v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Elizabeth Lane, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Angela J. Manson, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0777

    The defendant could not show harm from the trial court's favorable ruling, which allowed her to testify that both she and the victim were gang members so that she could establish prior difficulties

  • Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth. v. Rouse

    Publication Date: 2005-05-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin A. Doyle and G. Melton Mobley Lokey, Mobley & Doyle LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John M. Foy, David M. Sobell Sobell & Foy PC, and Andrew J. Hinton Jr., Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Stephen L. Cotter and Charles E. Hoffecker Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S04G1389

    A common carrier, in exercising ordinary care, must stay informed of safety advances in product design, but is not necessarily required to utilize the most approved pattern in use up to that

  • Sugarloaf Cafe, Inc. v. Willbanks

    Publication Date: 2005-05-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Kenneth Moorman and Rachel A. Fuerst Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William D. Strickland Temple, Strickland, Counts & Dinges, Ralph E. Hughes, Decatur, and Larry G. Cobb Cobb, Grabbe, Spillers & Irwin, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Charles Y. Hoff and Andrea M. Muller Berman Fink Van Horn PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S04G1315

    Circumstantial evidence that an alcoholic beverage server does business in a "remote" location and that most customers drive to the server's place of business is not sufficient to show that the serv