• James v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2006-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Sussman, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robert W. Smith Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S06A0293

    An administrative law judge lacked jurisdiction to review the Department of Motor Vehicle Safety's declaration that the petitioner was a habitual vio

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan A. Welch, Millen, and Barbara B. Claridge, Claridge Law Firm, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S06A0258

    Testimony from the first defendant's uncle properly authenticated a note, which the first defendant gave to his uncle while he was in

  • Sauerwein v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Branch Connelly, Jeffrey G. Gilley and Bobby L. Cook Cook & Connelly, Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, George C. Turner Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Woodbine, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S06A0089

    The trial court did not improperly interject its own opinion in the case by asking the infant murder victim's mother if the victim was teething at the time the defendant struck the victim and then r

  • Murray County v. R&J Murray LLC

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen E. O'Day, Shannan F. Oliver Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP, Atlanta, and Gregory H. Kinnamon, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard W. Wilson Jr. and Robert M. Hoyland Wilson, Brook & Irby LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S05A1950

    Butts County v. Pine Ridge Recycling Inc., 213 Ga. App. 510 1994 reversed, to the extent that Butts County ruled that, under O.C.G.A. § 12-8-31.1 b, a local government can only consider environmenta

  • Pitts v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis M. Turchiarelli, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gary T. Moss, District Attorney, and Samuel K. Barger, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.

    Case Number: S05G1156

    A 911 call made while the crime was in progress for the purpose of seeing immediate assistance is not testimonial in n

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  • Bulat v. Bulat

    Publication Date: 2006-02-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David M. Kupsky McKenney & Froelich, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sandra H. Taylor, LaGrange, for appellee.

    Case Number: S05F1980

    The husband acquiesced to an informal procedure for determining his wife's attorneys fees in their divorce action, in which his wife would submit her request for attorneys' fees with an itemized bi

  • Patterson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg Fulton County Conflict Defender Inc., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S05A1378

    Any error in admitting evidence that the defendant attempted to stab another inmate with a homemade knife while in prison was harmless given the overwhelming evidence that he stabbed the elderly vi

  • Dubose v. Hodges

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Wiley Jr., Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Christopher A. Brasher and Kay Baker, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S05A2105

    Mandamus was not an available remedy to compel a special prosecutor to present a criminal case to the grand

  • Morgan County Bd. of Comm'rs v. Mealor

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christian G. Henry, Madison, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Brenda H. Trammell, Madison, for appellee.

    Case Number: S05A1437

    The county's decision not to include the Superior Court Clerk in the county's pension plan was plain and reasonably based on the fact that the Clerk already received pension contributions derived fr

  • Camp v. Coweta County

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald C. Evans Jr. Vaughan & Evans, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brenda Godfrey Hawkins & Parnell LLP, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston, Richard V. Merritt and Robert C. Edwards, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: Kim M. Jackson Hawkins & Parnell LLP, Atlanta.

    Case Number: S05G0892

    Mailing a copy of a complaint to the Attorney General is not necessary to perfect service under the Georgia Tort Claim