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  • Perkinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William E. Nethery, Maryann F. Blend and Corinne M. Mull-Milsteen, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy and John H. Petrey, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1710

    Defendant could not be retried in another county for the lesser included offenses that resulted in his felony murder convic

  • Grier v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Phillips, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles H. Weston, District Attorney, Elizabeth K. Bobbitt, Dorothy A. Vinson, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1996

    Defense counsel reasonably used stage photographs demonstrating the trajectory of the fatal bullet to discredit the state's theory on how the victim was shot, rather than objecting to there admissib

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael L. Edwards Quillian, Loncon & Edwards and Diane M. McLeod, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Gregory M. McConnell, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1428

    Evidence that defendant shot an unarmed man several hours after he discovered the man had been visiting his wife was admissible to show his motive and intent in shooting the victim who was hassling

  • Pendergrass v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Floyd H. Farless, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, Charles S. Cox, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1520

    Murder defendant had no constitutional right to the effective assistance of her expert who testified that she suffered from battered person syn

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen Jackson, Sparta, proceeded pro se. Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, Barnesville, and Wanda G. Johnson, Assistant District Attorney, Forsyth, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S00A1691

    Defendant was not entitled to a second appeal of his convictions for murder and armed ro

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  • Tessmer v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sandra J. Popson Katz, Flatau, Popson & Boyer LLP, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, Paul E. Hemmann, Assistant District Attorney, Barnesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1397

    Th evidence supported the battered police woman's felony murder conviction for shooting her husband in the chest after he rape

  • Middleton v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2000-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Phillips, Ludowici, Billy N. Jones Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Robert F. Pirkle, Hinesville, R. Joseph Hammill, Brunswick and James C. Nobles Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John D. Harvey, Richmond Hill, Cathy Cox, Secretary of State, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S01A0183, S01A0184

    Petitioners who contested two local primary ele failed to affirmatively show that enough electors voted illegally so as to cast doubt on the result of the ele

  • Higdon v. City of Senoia

    Publication Date: 2000-11-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
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    Case Number: S00A1103; S00A1104

    O.C.G.A. § 36-36-11 and O.C.G.A. § 36-70-24 4 C, which create a process for attempting to resolve disputes concerning annexation, do not unconstitutionally infringe on a city's power to zone land wi

  • Quintanilla v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-11-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William F. Rucker, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker, Barbara B. Conroy, Robert E. Statham III, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and W. Swain Wood Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1186

    Defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to admissible gang related photographs which showed the circumstances surrounding the gang victim's m

  • Collins v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-11-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey S. Bowman, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1496

    Defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to character evidence that established defendant's motive for committing the c