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  • Ucak v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek H. Jones, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Thomas A. Cole, Herman M. Kilgore, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0257

    Defense counsel made a legitimate tactical choice in deciding not to request a continuance to call a psychiatrist who acknowledged that jurors might have difficulty accepting his opinion that defend

  • Holmes v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General,, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0004

    The omission of a sua sponte charge on the specific forcible felony underlying a defendant's justification charge is not harmful as a matter o

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick G. Longhi, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1785

    The evidence showed that the defendant committed the felonies underlying his murder conviction while acting in concert with the actual sh

  • Palmer v. Bertrand

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip T. Raymond III, Susan D. Raymond Shaffer, Raymond & Dalton, and Thomas F. Bohan, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Strauss and Bradley G. Pyles Westmoreland, Patterson & Moseley, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1550

    Georgia's paternity statutes do not violate equal prote

  • Payne v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellis R. Garnett, 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: S00A1679

    Defendant was not entitled to a mistrial based on the prosecutor's closing argument that defendant's voluntary use of alcohol and drugs did not excuse his co

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  • Williams v. Lawrence

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, and W. Swain Wood Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Lawrence, Hardwick, proceeded pro se. Amicus appellee: James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S00A1487

    Parole officer's hearsay testimony at defendant's parole revoc hearing did not violate defendant's due process right of confront

  • McGinn v. McGinn

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew R. Pachman Lawler & Tanner PC and Jean M. Kutner Kutner & Bloom, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alvah O. Smith, Hope C. B. Allen Warner, Mayoue & Bates PC, Atlanta, and Hylton B. Dupree Jr. Dupree, Johnson, Poole & King, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1424

    Wife is entitled to discover the value and reasonable earnings potential of her husband's family-owned stock which is held in a company trust because the husband's interest in the trust is relevant

  • Garden Hills Civic Assoc. Inc. v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth.

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard N. Hubert Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin and Mary C. Cooney, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David D. Blum City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Carl E. Westmoreland Jr. Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP, Charles N. Pursley Jr., Christian F. Torgrimson Pursley, Howell, Lowery & Meeks LLC, Atlanta, and Thomas A. Bowman Maddox, Nix, Bowman & Zoeckler, Conyers, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Matthew D. Gansereit Allen, Kopet & Boyd PLLC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S01A0069

    Civic association's motion for an interlocutory injunction to prevent MARTA from implementing a land development agreement is d

  • Heard v. Lovett

    Publication Date: 2000-11-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley M. Lefco, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stanley E. Foster Arrington & Hollowell PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1631

    A testator's declarations are admissible in cases involving disputes over the genuineness of the testator's

  • DeLoach v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emory B. Bazemore, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Ann M. Elmore, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1618

    The jury was entitled to believe the eyewitness identification of defendant as the sh