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  • In re N. A. U. E.

    Publication Date: 2010-10-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dante A. Marshall The Law Firm of DMG LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William F. Collins Shelton, Collins & Gordon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Elizabeth M. Williamson, Assistant Attorney General, and Cassandra Kirk, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A1109

    O.C.G.A. § 5-6-35 a 12 does not violate due process in making appellate review of the juvenile court's determination on the termination of parental discretionary and not as of

  • Cowart v. Widener

    Publication Date: 2010-08-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles C. Stebbins III Warlick, Tritt, Stebbins & Murray LLP, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John A. Davison, Amy R. Snell Fulcher Hagler LLP, Charles C. Mayers, Augusta, J. Edward Allen Jr. Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, and Henry E. Scrudder Jr. Scrudder, Bass, Quillian, Horlock, Taylor & Lazarus LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09G1177

    The plaintiffs did not establish that the defendant's failure to render the decedent aid proximately caused his death from natural causes, since they produced no evidence, expert or otherwise, on th

  • State v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2010-08-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman and Jesse D. Evans, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tony L. Axam Axamlaw and Calvin A. Edwards Jr., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0070

    State v. Crane, 247 Ga. 779 1981, overruled, as the felony murder statute requires only that the defendant's felonious conduct proximately cause the death of another p

  • Registe v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas C. Hagler, Stacey S. Jackson and Amy C. Walters Hagler, Henderson, Jackson & Walters, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laura J. Murphree Prosecuting Attorneys Council and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0533, S10A0534, S10A0535

    A former assistant district attorney was disqualified from representing a defendant in a murder case, in which the former district attorney signed search warrant applications to secure evidence agai

  • Bell v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel F. Little Jr. Little & Crumly LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, Bainbridge, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0173

    No evidence showed that the defendant took any property from the victim or entered the victim's home without auth

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  • Henderson v. Hames

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Holly A. Pierson Morris, Manning & Martin LLP and William V. Custer IV Powell Goldstein LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0363

    The evidence did not support the defendant's convictions, since the state failed to show that the defendant ' "consciously disregarded a substantial and unjustifiable risk" ' of bodily harm to anoth

  • Cowart v. Widener

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles C. Stebbins III Warlick, Tritt, Stebbins & Murray LLP, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John A. Davison, Amy R. Snell Fulcher Hagler LLP, Charles C. Mayers, Augusta, J. Edward Allen Jr. Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, and Henry E. Scrudder Jr. Scrudder, Bass, Quillian, Horlock, Taylor & Lazarus LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09G1177

    The plaintiffs did not establish that the defendant's failure to render the decedent aid proximately caused his death from natural causes, since they produced no evidence, expert or otherwise, on th

  • State v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, John R. Edwards, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jack L. Menendez, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0220

    The trial court erred in summarily ruling that any statement, which the defendant made, after stating that, ' "I want a lawyer," ' must be exc

  • Body v. Christ Overcoming Church of God Inc. v. Brinson

    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael O. Mondy Mondy & Co. LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David N. Dreyer and Gary S. Freed Chamberlain Hrdlicka, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0392

    The doctrine of collateral estoppel barred re-adjudication of the issue of whether a church's purported director had authority to act on the church's b

  • Childs v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Morgan III, Abbeville, for appellant. Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, Matthew P. Brown, Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S10A0497

    O.C.G.A. § 24-9-84.1 a 2-which allows impeachment of a testifying defendant with his prior felony convictions-is not unconstitut