• Harper v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S07A1460

    The magistrate did not have probable cause for issuing a search warrant for the death penalty defendant's office and desk, since the informant was anonymous and information in the affidavit sup

  • State v. White

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S07A1308

    The trial court was authorized to find that, as result of state's negligence, the defendants were subjected to an extraordinarily long delay in being brought to trial, they were not dilatory in

  • Parker v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S07A1586

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting the state a continuance based on the absence of an unsubpoenaed, but material wi

  • Chumley v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S07A1280

    The trial court plainly erred in expressing its opinion about voluntariness of the defendant's admission that he killed his m

  • DRST Holdings Ltd. v. Agio Corp.

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S07A1648

    The trial court did not err in entering a decree vesting fee simple title in appellee, who purchased the pr in question at a May 2004 tax sale, since the county's subsequent sale of the p

  • Kaminer v. Canas

    Publication Date: 2007-11-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam L. Appel and Kim M. Ruder Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for Kaminer. J. Robert Persons Smith Moore LLP, William L. Ballard Scherffius, Ballard, Still & Ayres and Michael G. Regas II, Atlanta, for Canas. Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Atlanta, and Bryan F. Dorsey, Marietta, for Board of Regents of University System of Ga. James S. V. Weston Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley, Augusta, for MCG Health Inc. William P. Franklin Jr., Christopher L. Ray and Leslie P. Sheehan Oliver, Maner & Gray LLP, Savannah, for Al-Jabi. Amicus appellant: Temple Sellers, Marietta, Donald J. Palmisano Jr. Medical Assoc. of Ga., H. Andrew Owen Jr., Roger E. Harris Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Daniel J. Huff Huff, Powell & Bailey and Shannon C. Shipley, Atlanta. Amicus appellee: Charles M. Cork III, Macon, and J. Marcus E. Howard Pope & Howard PC, Atlanta. Other party representation: Stephen E. Curry, Augusta.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S07G0489; S07G0566; S07G0578; S07G0587

    The 2-year statute of limitation began to run on the plaintiff's misdiagnosis claim on the dates that his treating physicians first failed to diagnose the plaintiff's AIDS cond

  • King v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Clark Landrum, Sylvester, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Bowden, District Attorney, Tifton, Erika S. Johnson, Assistant District Attorney, Sylvester, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Mary N. Kimmey, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A1354

    The 13-month-old victim died from hemorrhaging and peritonitis after suffering blunt force trauma to his ab

  • Underwood v. Underwood

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph M. Todd, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dwight T. Feemster Duffy & Feemster LLP, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07F1009

    The trial court's corrective action, in reducing the face amount of the life insurance policy that the husband was to maintain for the wife's benefit, constituted a directly-appealable final

  • Simpson v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer R. Burns, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Ronald M. Adams, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A1396

    The surviving victim positively identified the defendant as the man, who robbed him at gunpoint and shot his two fr

  • Berry v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-10-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Norman S. Gunter, District Attorney, Charles W. Smegal, Assistant District Attorney, Dahlonega, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07A0927

    The defendant ran over the victim, dragging him under his car and crushing his