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  • Palmer v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-10-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nina M. Svoren and Timothy P. Healy Healy & Svoren, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarksville, and Richard K. Bridgeman, District Attorney, Jefferson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07G0454

    O.C.G.A. § 17-7-110, as enacted in 2003, gave the defendant 10 days following his arraignment in which to file his special demu

  • Ganaway v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0866

    The defendant stabbed the unarmed victim to death with a 9-inch

  • Georgia Pine Community Serv. Bd. v. Summerlin

    Publication Date: 2007-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary L. Seacrest and Annarita M. Busbee Seacrest, Karesh, Tate & Bicknese LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cale H. Conley, Richard A. Griggs Conley Griggs LLP, Atlanta, and C. Frederick Overby Overby Law Office PC, Columbus, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Loretta L. Pinkston and Jennifer L. Dalton, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S06G1461

    Both O.C.G.A. § 9-11-4 and 50-21-35 apply to service of process under the Georgia Tort Claim

  • Griffin v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas L. Kirbo III The Kirbo Law Firm, and Jon V. Forehand Allen & Forehand, Moutrie, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, Robert R. Auman, Assistant District Attorney, Thomasville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0385

    O.C.G.A. § 16-5-40 does not preclude a conviction for kidnapping with bodily injury if the bodily injury occurs after the victim's

  • Haley v. Haley

    Publication Date: 2007-07-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelley O. Boswell Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: W. Earl McCall McCall, Phillips & Williams LLC, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0241

    By agreeing to submit the attorneys' fee issue to trial court for resolution without mention of O.C.G.A. § 19-6-19 d in their settlement agreement, the parties authorized trial court to exercise its

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  • Spiller v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A1035

    The state was entitled to infer in closing that the fatal bullet came from the defendant's rifle, based on the size of the entry

  • Moeti v. Clark Atlanta Univ. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2007-06-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gina S. Mangham Morriss, Lober & Dobson LLC, Lithonia, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Burton F. Dodd and Karen W. Neely Fisher & Phillips LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0541

    The trial court properly dismissed a claim for injunctive relief seeking to stop a university from closing its engineering program, since the appellants' proper remedy was to seek damages for any al

  • Sturgis v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James T. Jones Jr., Thomson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis C. Sanders, District Attorney, Durwood R. Davis, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Thomson, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0516

    The defendant shot one victim to death and waived his gun in another victim's face, while demanding to know what he was doing at the first victim's resi

  • State v. Aiken

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William K. Wynn Jr., District Attorney, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: John L. Strauss, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07G0126

    The trial court did not err in determining that the state probation officer's statement was co

  • Pipkin v. Boggs

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P. Killian Killian & Boyd, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Tyler L. Randolph, Jeffrey L. Arnold and H. Craig Stafford Arnold, Stafford, Randolph & Schaefer, Richmond Hill, for appellees.
    Case Number: S07A0017

    Findings of fact and conclusions of law made in connection with the grant or denial of an interlocutory injunction are preliminary in nature and required when one party requests