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  • Foster v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Douglas Stewart Stewart, Melvin & Frost, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, Rome, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Paige R. Whitaker, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1800

    Evidence, including defendant's IQ tests before age 17 and school performance, supported jury's finding that he was not mentally ret

  • Abrams v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter J. Lane Jr., Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles H. Weston, District Attorney, Henry O. Jones III, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1758

    The defendant's ex-wife could testify that he admitted murdering his sister since the evidence contradicted the defendant's claim that he and the ex-wife had a common law mar

  • Bolden v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William C. Head and Thomas J. Thomas, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99G1005

    Defendant did not have to renew his objection to solicitor's improper comment on credibility of state's only wi

  • Moody v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Martin The Martin Firm LLP, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Rudjard M. Hayes, Assistant District Attorney, Greenville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1631

    Since defendant could have received a double punishment both for shooting the victims and for possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony, his acquittal on the weapons charge did not bar

  • Morgan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronnie J. Lane, Donalsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, Minerva S. Cansino, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1670

    Defendant failed to show that jurors were not selected randomly merely because they were placed at the top of the jury list for the court's current after they were excused during the previous

  • Brown v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen N. Hollomon, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Arthur H. Clarke Jr. Arthur H. Clarke Jr. PC and Fred I. Graham, Warner Robins, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1708

    The plaintiff was not entitled to a default judgment against her mother-in-law with regard to marital property that was titled in the mother-in-law's name since O.C.G.A. § 9-11-55 does not apply to

  • Maree v. Phillips

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard N. Hubert Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Warren R. Hinds, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1570

    Under the parties' cohabitation agreement, the property they acquired while living together was divided between them according to the amount each paid to acquire the property, not including any amou

  • Pullin v. Dorsey

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy and Jeanne Canavan, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1546

    The trial court could raise defendant's bail from $100,000 to $750,000 upon being informed that he had prior felony convictions, that he might intimidate a witness to the murder and that he lost his

  • Edwards v. Georgia Dep't of Children and Youth Servs.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph W. Watkins, Lance D. Lourie Watkins, Lourie & Roll LLP, Atlanta, William P. Langdale III Langdale, Vallotton, Linahan, Threlkeld, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ziva P. Bruckner, Paul H. Dunbar III Capers, Dunbar, Sanders & Bruckner, Augusta, Patricia Guilday Shivers & Assocs., Alpharetta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Charles A. Mathis Jr. Middleton, Mathis, Adams & Tate, and Glenn E. Kushel Mills, Moraitakis, Kushel & Pearson, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S99G0900

    The decision of state employees on the type of emergency medical treatment to provide incarcerated juveniles does not fall within the discretionary function exception to the Georgia Tort Claim

  • Floyd v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek H. Jones, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin F. Smith Jr., District Attorney, Debra H. Bernes, Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Mary B. Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1775

    The defendant's admission that he stole a car and drove it to the murder scene corroborated his co-defendant's testimony that the defendant was involved in the fatal stabbing of one of the vi