• Reese v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-07-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cynthia W. Harrison, placeCityAtlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Amy E. H. Morelli, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S11A0220

    The trial court did not err in charging the jury on voluntary intoxication because circumstantial evidence supported the c

  • Ray v. Hartwell Railroad Co.

    Publication Date: 2011-07-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. NeSmith, Danielsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Allan R. Ramsay McClure, Ramsay, Dickerson & Escoe LLP, Toccoa, and Matthew D. Williams Yoss LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: S11A0459

    Appeal dismissed as moot because appellants' enumerations of error presented no challenge to the trial court's ruling that, as a matter of law, they could not prove their title to the disputed pro

  • Boatright v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-07-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., placeCityCarrolltonfor appellant. Fred A. Lane Jr., District Attorney, Anthony Volkodav Jr., Paul E. Hemmann, Eric K. Dunaway, Assistant District Attorneys, Dallas, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Amy E. H. Morelli, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S11A0287

    The trial court did not err by failing to instruct the jury on mutual combat because no evidence showed a mutual intention to

  • Wilson v. Kemp

    Publication Date: 2011-06-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Milton Wilson, Alamo, proceeded pro se. Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Daniel M. King Jr., Dublin, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S10A1465

    The defendant was not informed that his guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter waived his privilege against compulsory self-incrimin

  • Brown v. Pounds

    Publication Date: 2011-06-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth L. Fite, David H. Flint Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Dwight J. Davis, Phyllis B. Sumner King & Spalding LLP, Tim J. Gutenberger, Jonathan L. Rue Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, Atlanta, and S. Lester Tate Akins & Tate PC, Cartersville, for Brown. W. Pitts Carr Carr & Palmer LLP, Atlanta, and Hylton B. Dupree Jr. Dupree & Kimbrough LLP, Marietta, for Pounds. David M. Cohen Carr & Palmer, Tim J. Gutenberger and Jonathan L. Rue Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP, Atlanta, for McGinnis. Amicus Appellant for Brown: Robert F. Glass W. Winston Briggs Law Firm, Atlanta. Other partyrepresentation: Herbert S. Gregory Jr. Brock, Clay, Calhoun & Rogers LLC, Robert B. Silliman Awtrey & Parker, Marietta, F. Barry McCabe Southerland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Edward A. Webb Webb, Klase & Lemond LLC and Michael Weinstock Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S10G1343; S10G1345

    Because the issue on appeal concerned uncontroverted evidence regarding the acts taken by the Board subsequent to the trial court's approving the agreement and the legal determination of whether su

  • Gwinnett County Sch. Dist. v. Cox

    Publication Date: 2011-06-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles P. Aaron, Gerald M. Edenfield, Susan W. Cox Edenfield, Cox, Bruce & Classens PC, Statesboro, T. Joshua R. Archer, Michael J. Bowers, Joshua M. Moore Balch & Bingham LLP, Thomas A. Cox, Atlanta, Santana T. Flanigan, A.J. Welch Jr. Smith, Welch & Brittain LLP, McDonough, and Timothy N. Shepherd, Griffin, for appellants. Bruce P. Brown, Ellen C. Carothers, Jeremy T. Berry McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Stefan E. Ritter, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Judson H. Turner and Robert L. Fortson Turner, Bachman & Garrett LLC, Marietta, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Phillip L. Hartley, Martha M. Pearson Harben, Hartley & Hawkins LLP, Gainesville, and Michael E. Kramer Buckley & Klein LLP, Atlanta. Amicus Appellee: Sarina M. Russotto Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Joshua B. Belinfante, Alexia R. Ross Robbinsfreed, Atlanta, Michael M. Middleton, Mark D. Johnson Gilbert, Harrell, Sumerford & Martin PC, Brunswick, and Andrew W. Broy, Oak Park, Ill.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S10A1773

    The state constitution grants exclusive control of K-12 public education to local county and area boards of education and the 2008 Georgia Charter Schools Commission Act clearly and palpably violat

  • Davidson v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-05-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Scott Key, McDonough, for appellant. James D. McDade, District Attorney, James A. Dooley, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Sheila E. Gallow, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S11A0120

    The trial court did not err in declining to instruct the jury on voluntary manslaughter because the defendant's own testimony showed that he did not shoot victim in the heat of pa

  • Huling v. Huling

    Publication Date: 2011-03-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Stein, St. Marys, and Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James B. Durham and Audra L. Rizzi-Gegg Durham, McHugh & Duncan PC, Brunswick, for appellee.

    Case Number: S10F1591

    Because the plaintiffs induced and expressly acquiesced in the allegedly erroneous judgment at the jury charge conference, the Court refused to entertain their allegation of error on a

  • Newsome v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-03-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bernadette C. Crucilla Crucilla Law Firm, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Nancy S. Malcor, Dorothy V. Hull, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Amy E. H. Morelli, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S10A1905

    The defendants' two life sentences for murdering the same victim were surpl

  • Sapp v. Canal Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2011-03-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen R. Chance, Lance D. Lourie Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance PC, Atlanta, and William H. Hedrick, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert W. Browning, Charles A. Ratz Gilliland, Ratz & Browning PC, Atlanta, W. Earl McCall McCall, Williams, Wilmot & Powell, Albany, Robert C. Wilmot McCall, Williams, Wilmot & Powell, and John C. Spurlin Spurlin & Spurlin LLC, Tifton, for appellee.

    Case Number: S10G0619

    Because a dump truck company was in the business of furnishing a dump truck and driver, for compensation, to haul crushed rock and like materials on the state's public roadways, it was a motor carri