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  • Tarver v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Garrett Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, Joe T. Thalgott, Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: William S. Askew, District Attorney, Swainsboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1298

    Even if the victim's wallet was empty when defendant took it at gunpoint, his actions satisfied the "taking" element of O.C.G.A. § 16-8

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer E. Hildebrand Hildebrand Law Office PC, LaFayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, LaFayette, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1466

    The evidence at trial established a sufficient basis for admission of the aggravated assault victim's opinion testimony that the second female voice she heard during attack at her home was the defe

  • Harden v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S04A0777

    The defendant stood by the passenger side of the murder vi vehicle during an attempted drug buy and fired several shots at the vi

  • Crawford v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr., Atlanta, and Mark E. Olive, Tallahassee, Fla., for appellee. William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Griffin, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Susan B. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S04A0589

    An appeal from the denial of a motion for DNA testing must be made by application for discretionary review when the motion is made as part of an extraordinary motion for new

  • Folds v. Barber

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Curtis R. Richardson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randall L. Keen, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0577

    The parties never reached a meeting of the minds as to a set fee for real estate referrals the plaintiff gave to the def

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  • Ivey v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-04
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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 Jr., Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0785

    The witness's failure to identify the defendant before trial did not invalidate his in-court identification of defendant as one of the ro

  • Al-Amin v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Martin Martin Bros. PC, Donald F. Samuel and William C. Lea Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Anna E. Green, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Ruth M. Pawlak, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0151

    The surviving victim identified the defendant as the man who opened fire on two deputy sheriffs who were attempting to execute a bench warrant for his a

  • Henley v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Betsy L. Clink DeKalb County Public Defender's Officer, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0640

    Defendant was not in custody when he voluntarily road to the police station in an unmarked car with doors that could be opened from the inside and voluntarily told the officers that he asked the 13-

  • Eleazer v. Eleazer

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jean M. Miller, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daryl G. Lecroy, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04F0432

    The trial court balanced the children's needs with the father's ability to pay in finding special circumstances, which justified a downward deviation in the child support guide

  • Unified Gov't of Athens-Clarke County v. Hospital Auth. of Clarke County

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew H. Marshall Begnaud & Marshall LLP, and William C. Berryman Jr., Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, and J. Edward Allen Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, for appellees. Amicus appellee: Jack S. Schroder Jr. Alston & Bird, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S04A0449

    A 2-step process for filling vacancies on the county hospital board of trustees did not have to be reduced to wr