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  • Welbon v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vicki E. Carter, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Maudlin, District Attorney, Christopher T. Anderson, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0882

    Trial counsel's decision not to call expert to testify that the defendant suffered from Battered Person's Syndrome was a matter of trial ta

  • Helton v. Cross

    Publication Date: 2004-09-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen D. Barr Barr, Warner & Pine, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: George M. Hubbard III, Savannah, and Sean R. Kasper, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04F0707

    The trial court did not deviate from the terms of the parties' reconciliation agreement when it awarded the ex-husband $9,500 as an equitable division of the jewelry he gave his ex-wife during their

  • Hightower v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold A. Sturdivant Sullivan, Sturdivant & Ogletree, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Griffin, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0720

    The defendant shot the murder victim in the head during an arg

  • Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah v. Stevens

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James B. Balckburn, City Attorney Wiseman, Balckburn & Futrell, Patrick T. O'Connor and Patricia T. Paul Oliver, Maner & Gray, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Timothy F. Callaway III Karsman, Brooks & Callaway, and Harris O'Dell Jr., Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03G1536

    An officer who was injured in an accident on her way to work in her own personal vehicle was not entitled to workers' compensation ben

  • Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Rozier

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert R. Lomax Marchetti & Lomax LLP, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: William A. Edwards Jr. and Brace W. Luquire, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04Q0360

    Ownership of repossessed collateral remains with the debtor until the creditor disposes of the collateral or elects to retain it in accordance with the Uniform Commercial

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  • Dixon v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fred R. Simpson, Rome, David Balser, James D. Dantzler Jr., James A. Washburn and Thomas B. Bosch McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, John F. McClellan Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Nicholas A. Lotito, Atlanta, Michael E. Paulhus, William D. Iverson, Claire G. Kunstling Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S04A0072

    The defendant was entitled to the lessor of two punishments under the rule of lenity because the two statutes-misdemeanor statutory rape and felony child molestation-are in con

  • Fletcher v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel E. Gavrin, Atlanta, and Franklin W. Thomas Jr., Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Alvera A. Wheeler, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Andrette Watson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0467

    Th ndant was not entitled to a reversal of his conviction based on the trial court's refusal to allow his counsel to comment in closing on the state's failure to call certain witness, because t

  • Smith v. Williams, Warden

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura D. Hogue Hogue & Hogue, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Raina Nadler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0289

    The defendant would not have pled guilty to charges of first degree vehicular homicide, violation of the controlled substances act and DUI if his plea attorney had not misinformed him that he would

  • Bates v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucy K. Henry Carey, Jarrard & Walker, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Deal, District Attorney, Jennifer C. Bagwell, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0221

    Trial counsel's presentation of an involuntary manslaughter defense was not deficient where the defendant did not point to any other defense that trial counsel should have pu

  • Dixon v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fred R. Simpson, Rome, David Balser, James D. Dantzler Jr., James A. Washburn and Thomas B. Bosch McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, John F. McClellan Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Nicholas A. Lotito, Atlanta, Michael E. Paulhus, William D. Iverson, Claire G. Kunstling Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S04A0072

    The defendant was entitled to the lessor of two punishments under the rule of lenity because the two statutes-misdemeanor statutory rape and felony child molestation-are in con