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  • Dunn v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth M. Grant, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, Brian V. Patterson, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1139

    Any violation of the ant's right to privacy resulting from the prosecutor's use of testimony from a treating nurse was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt given the overwhelming evidence of the

  • Milford v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Bearden Jr., Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory W. Winters, District Attorney, John A. Regan, Dorothy V. Hull, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1283

    The victim's statements to the responding officer were admissible as part of the res g

  • Gates v. Glass

    Publication Date: 2012-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald J. Grate, Joshua B. Portnoy and Sun. S. Choy Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael L. Neff, Timothy S. Peagler The Law Offices of Michael Lawson Neff PC, and George B. Spears, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Steven G. Blackerby and Richard K. Strickland Brown, Readdick Bumgartner, Carter, Strickland & Watkins LLP, Brunswick.
    Case Number: S12G0133

    A tractor and a bush hog constituted motor vehicles, so the county waived its sovereign immunity when it purchased liability insurance coverage for the vehicles in an amount exceeding the limits pre

  • Drane v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-06-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward D. Tolley and Ronald E. Houser Cook, Noell, Tolley & Bates, LLP, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, James V. Chafin, David T. Lock, Assistant District Attorneys, Athens, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Richard Tangum, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0857

    The defendant's failure to demonstrate that he took diligent steps to ascertain what testimony his co-defendant might have been willing to give during the more than 17 years since trial was an indep

  • Humphrey v. Lewis

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Richard Tangum, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul E. Greenwalt III, Ann H. MacDonald and Heidi Oertle Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, Ill., for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0154

    The defendant was not entitled to habeas relief because he could not show that withheld evidence had a reasonable probability of affecting the outcome of his

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  • Sharpe v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-06-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, Augusta, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0677

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in excluding the defendant's 911 call because he did not testify and was not subject to cross-examin

  • Gilbert v. Pridgen

    Publication Date: 2012-06-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elisha Gilbert Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, Cordele, for appellees.
    Case Number: S12A0869

    The trial court properly denied a petition for mandamus that completely lacked any justiciable issue of law or

  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-06-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine R. Thrower, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0764

    Evidence that the defendant shot the victim in the heat of passion was sufficient to require a jury charge on voluntary manslaughter, and since the defendant was entitled to such a charge, the tria

  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, and Max C. Richardson Jr., Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0698

    A jury charge as to whether possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is inherently dangerous was not warranted by the evidence, which showed that the defendant intentionally grabbed his pistol a

  • Padidham v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James K. Sullivan and Robert W. Chestney Chestney Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rosanna M. Szabo, Solicitor General, and Karen M. Seeley, Assistant Solicitor General, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11G1808

    The state's failure to immediately inform a DUI defendant of the results of the state-administered breath test does not create a situation where the defendant is left with no, or so little, informat