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  • Holiness Baptist Assoc. Inc. v. Barber

    Publication Date: 2001-09-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ben B. Mills Jr. Mills & Chasteen PC, Fitzgerald, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas E. Pujadas Walters, Davis & Pujadas Ocilla, for appellees.
    Case Number: S01A1175

    The issue of who had control over real property used by a church was not an ecclesiastical m

  • Todd v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wayne S. Melnick and Steven E. Phillips, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0435

    The victim's statements to her sister were admissible under the necessity exception to the hearsay

  • Jones v. NordicTrack Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-07-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Foy R. Devine Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield & Knowles, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Daniel A. Ragland Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, Atlanta, Timothy Pramas and Patricia Yoedicke Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellees.
    Case Number: S01Q0568

    A product need not be in use at the time of injury for a defendant to be held liable for a defective design under theories of strict liability, negligence or failure to

  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory A. Hicks and James K. Luttrell, Woodstock, for Thomas. Carlton C. Carter, Canton, for Taborn. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Maria B. Golick, Dana J. Norman, Jack E. Mallard, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A0146; S01A0321

    Evidence obtained by foreign police is generally admissible regardless of whether foreign authorities comply with the Fourth Amen

  • Accolades Apartments LP v. Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2001-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John G. Parker, Joseph C. Sharp Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Atlanta, for Accolades Apartments LP. William R. Turner, County Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Daniel M. Formby, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Warren R. Calvert, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Marcia M. Ernst, William Van Hearnburg Jr. Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Shellie R. Cherner, Nicholas G. Dumich Hewitt, Katz & Dumich, Thomas R. Walker Troutman Sanders LLP, Terrill A. Parker Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Beryl H. Weiner, Richard H. Deane Jr., James R. Schulz, Assistant United States Attorney, John Drake Cole Henderson Drake Inc., Nan H. Newman Georgia Power Co., Glenn R. Austin Federal National Mortgage Assoc., L. L. Edge Consolidated Equities Corp., General Electric Corp., General Electric Capital Corp. CT Corp. Sys., Lumbermans Mut. Ins. Co., Atlanta, W. R. Robertson III, Marietta, Thomas Allen Union Central Life Ins. Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, Siamak Kusha Owen, Ayers & Assocs. Inc., Tampa, Fla., Carol Russell State of Maryland Deposit Ins. Fund, Hunt Valley, Md., and GE Appliances Electric Corp., Fairfield, Conn., for Fulton County and others. Amicus Appellant: William H. Dodson II Dodson, Feldman & Dorough LLP, Aasia Mustakeem Powell, Goldstein, Frazier & Murphy LLP, Atlanta, and Carol V. Clark McCalla, Raymer, Padrick, Cobb & Nichols, Roswell Accolades Apartments LLP v. Fulton County. Michael J. King, Robert E. Spears Jr. and Joseph H. Akers Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for Aaron Rents Inc. Joseph G. Davis, Laura L. McGinty Welch, Spell, Reemsnyder, Pless & Davis, William B. Brown Heyman & Sizemore LLC, Marcia M. Ernst Smith, Gambrell & Russell, John G. Parker Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Warren R. Calvert, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta for Fourteenth Street Ventures LP Aaron Rents Inc. v. Fourteenth Street Ventures LP.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S00G0952; S00G1477

    The rights and responsibilities of the individual joint venturers determine whether a partnership is f even if the documents controlling the venture expressly state that no partnership was f

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  • Vaughns v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sam B. Sibley Jr., Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0075

    Evidence that defendant was involved in a prior murder was relevant to show that he shot the victim to prevent him from snitching to police about the earlier

  • Chapman v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Michael, Decatur, for Chapman. Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for Murphy. J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Kristin L. Wood, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A0581; S01A0582

    The trial court erred in failing to limit the jury's consideration of aggravated assault to the specific method charged in defendants' indic

  • Grimmette v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel T. Grimmette, Valdosta, proceeded pro se. J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, and Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S00A2039

    Defendant was not entitled to an out-of-time appeal from his 1985 convictions because resolution of his claims required him to establish facts not in the r

  • Woodson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen T. Smith, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00G0864

    Evidence that victim went from one room to another in response to defendant's threatening command satisfied the requirement of asportation under O.C.G.A. § 16-5

  • Cummings v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Pete Theodocion, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1490

    Evidence of defendant's involvement in a prior m was relevant and admissible to show his motive in killing the victim, who allegedly snitched to police about the prior m