• Rockholt v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven A. Miller Palmour Law Firm, Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, LaFayette, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and David A. Zisook, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S12A0638

    The evidence supported the defendant's convictions for malice murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a f

  • Graham v. Graham

    Publication Date: 2012-05-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: S12A0367

    The trial court did not reversibly err in failing to enter a consolidated pretrial in alleged violation of O.C.G.A. § 9-11-16 because the husband did not submit his own portion of that

  • Reed v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-05-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin C. Armstrong, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory W. Edwards, District Attorney, Kathryn O. Fallin, Assistant District Attorney, Albany, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S12A0443

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting similar transaction evidence showing that the defendant struck a past girlfriend with a stick during an arg

  • Unified Gov't of Athens-Clarke County v. Stiles Apartments Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-03-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas M. Mitchell Carothers & Mitchell LLC, Buford, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry L. Fitzpatrick, Danielsville, and Regina M. Quick, Athens, for appellee.

    Case Number: S12A0304

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting an interlocutory injunction to the plaintiff in its action for relief against the local government's efforts to assert ownership or control o

  • Tampa Inv. Group Inc. v. Branch Banking and Trust Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-03-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Dalbey, John K. Larkins Jr. Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever LLP, Eugenia W. Iredale and Steven M. Kushner Fellows LaBriola LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jennifer B. Moore, Mark G. Trigg and Lee B. Hart Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S11G1728; S11G1729

    Although the guaranties at issue did not individually and specifically identify the debt guaranteed, the plain meaning of their language showed that the obligations had no temporal limitation and ap

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  • East Georgia Land and Dev. Co LLC v. Newton County

    Publication Date: 2012-03-23
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmy L. Paul and Drew V. Greene Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter R. Olson Olson Law LLC, Cartersville, Edward D. Tolley Cook, Noell, Tolley & Bates LLP, Athens, William T. Craig and James B. Griffin, Covington, for appellee.

    Case Number: S12A0114

    Although the establishment of a copy of a zoning ordinance made it an evidentiary substitute for t ginal, it remained subject to any validity or enforcement issues that could be raised against

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Bearden Jr., Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory W. Winters, District Attorney, Macon, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S12A0040

    Trial counsel was not ineffective in failing to raise constitutional challenges to the mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years imprisonment without parole for kidnapping a victim less than 14 year

  • Walker v. Hagins

    Publication Date: 2012-02-10
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert L. Hagins, Sparta, proceeded pro se.

    Case Number: S11A1970

    The defendant failed to meet his burden of showing prejudice from his appellate counsel's alleged deficiency in not ensuring that the transcript of the hearing on the defendant's motion to dismiss t

  • Neal v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roger C. Wilson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Sheila E. Gallow, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S11A1663

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting similar transaction evidence involving the defendant's ex-wife and which occurred a decade or more before the victim's

  • Hill v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-02-10
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Joshua D. Morrison, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and David A. Zisook, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S11A1914

    The officer's testimony that the defendant declined an opportunity to make a written statement did not constitute an impermissible comment on the defendant's invocation of the right to si