• Hampton v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-09-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon A. Bullard Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christian A. Fuller, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Frances C. Kuo, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14A0768

    The defendant lacked standing to seek suppression of certain text messages between himself and his accomplice, as there was no evidence that he had a sufficient privacy interest in the cell phone he

  • Coulter v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: S14A0921

    The defendant failed to prove that his guilty pleas to two counts of malice murder were not intelligent, knowing and volu

  • Wiggins v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dawn M. Belisle, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Rochelle W. Gordon, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14A0853

    The victim was conscious of his dire condition when he made two non-verbal statements that it was the defendant who shot him, thus the statements were properly admitted as dying declara

  • State of Ga. Dep't of Corr. v. Developers Sur. & Indem. Co.

    Publication Date: 2014-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, William W. Banks Jr., Denise E. Whiting-Pack, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Mary J. L. Volkert, Helen P. Taylor, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and Ronald J. Freeman Johnson & Freeman LLC, Union City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jefferson B. Slagle, Joseph H. Wolenski III, and DeWitte Thompson Thompson & Slagle LLC, Johns Creek, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14G0360

    The State waived its sovereign immunity in a case involving a claim asserted by the subrogee of a roofing company on a construction contract with the Georgia Department of Correc

  • State v. Hill

    Publication Date: 2014-09-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karl D. Cooke Jr., District Attorney, Dorothy V. Hull, Shelley T. Milton, and Jason M. Wilbanks, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark A. Yurachek Yurachek & Associates LLC, and Stuart M. Mones, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14A1006

    The court relied on a clearly erroneous finding of fact as the foundation for its grant of the murder defendant's extraordinary motion for new

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  • McLaughlin v. Payne

    Publication Date: 2014-07-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: August F. Siemon III, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14A0220

    Because istrict attorney was wholly disqualified from the case, the assistant district attorneys on his staff—whose only power to prosecute a case is derived from the constitutional authority o

  • Carter v. Progressive Mountain Ins.

    Publication Date: 2014-07-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel J. Crowe and William G. Gainer Toliver & Gainer LLP, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Erica L. Parsons, Megan E. Boyd Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Mark A. Molina Sharon W. Ware & Associates, Atlanta, and Jason W. Hammer Lueder, Larkin & Hunter LLC, Alpharetta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13G1048

    The Court of Appeals erred in its application of the motor vehicle insurance limited liability release provision of O.C.G.A. § 33-24

  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-04-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Persse Public Defender's Office, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel H. Altman, District Attorney, Kelly A. Jenkins, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, and Rizza C. F. Palmares, Assistant District Attorney, Lyons, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13G1042

    Former O.C.G.A. § 16-13-31 subsection a 1's plain language dictated that the defendant's knowledge of the quantity or weight of the cocaine he possessed was an element of the crime of cocaine traffi

  • Bostic v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-04-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft III Public Defender's Office, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Frances C. Kuo, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorneys, Billy J. Dixon, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine L. Iannuzzi, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13A1344

    The defendant admitted to fatally shooting the victim, who was standing outside of a pizza parlor, and the jury was entitled to disbelieve his claim of self-de

  • Walker v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-04-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Margaret E. Heap, District Attorney, Nancy G. R. Brimberry, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Meghan H. Hill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13A1433

    The State proved the chain of custody of the defendant's blood-stained shoes, since the shoes were distinct and recognizable objects, identified by detectives who seized them and the serologist at a