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  • Pace v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Mears and Charlotta Norby, MultiCounty Public Defenders, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Allison B. Goldberg, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Joseph L. Chambers Sr. Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Ga., Smyrna, and Jeffrey Ertel Georgia Resource Ctr., Atlanta.
    Case Number: S99P0647

    Prosecutor's unprofessional reference to defendant during closing arguments as a "misogynistic, woman hating demon of the devil" and "Satan's lap dog" did not entitle defendant to a reversal of his

  • Drane v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Billy I. Daughtry Jr., Elberton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Allison B. Goldberg, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Joseph L. Chambers Sr. Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Ga., Atlanta, Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr. and Michael Mears, MultiCounty Public Defender, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S99P1003

    Co-defendant's confession of his role in the crime to his cellmate was inadmissible hearsay since there was no evidence of the statement's trustworth

  • Hackbart v. Hackbart

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James R. Westbury Jr. Power & Westbury LLP, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eloise W. Newhard Adams House, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1310

    The trial court should not have awarded child support against father since mother's divorce petition did not seek child support and father did not answer the petition or appear at the he

  • Kinney v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William H. Newton III, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, Rome, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1424

    Evidence that defendant and his accomplices bludgeoned and stabbed the victim in order to take her money was sufficient proof of the underlying armed robbery to support his felony murder convi