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  • Robbins v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-12-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amy L. Ihrig Public Defender's Office, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Margaret E. Heap, District Attorney, Lyndsey H. Rudder, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Aimee F. Sobhani, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S16A1342

    The trial court did not err in admitting into evidence statements the murder victim allegedly made to her niece on the morning after her husband beat her, which the niece then relayed to a police of

  • Alexander v. Gibson

    Publication Date: 2016-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wes C. Jackson Freeman Mathis Gary LLP, Atlanta, and Eugene C. Reed Jr., Assistant County Attorney Freeman Mathis Gary LLP, Forest Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald M. Dotson, Tucker, for appellee.
    Case Number: S16A1352

    Clerk of the court had a clear duty to file appellee's motion to compel under the requested case number without making an independent determination about whether a new case number should have been a

  • Ellis v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig A. Gillen, Anthony C. T. Lake Gillen, Parker Withers LLC, D. Lowell Thomas, Atlanta, and Kemay L. Jackson, Snellville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Christopher W. Timmons, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Lenny I. Krick, and Gerald Mason, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S16A1246

    The Court reversed former DeKalb County CEO's convictions for perjury and attempt to commit theft by extortion due to certain evidentiary errors that occurred at

  • City of Atlanta v. Atlanta Indep. Sch. Sys.

    Publication Date: 2016-12-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emmet J. Bondurant II, David G. H. Brackett, Robert L. Ashe III Bondurant, Mixson Elmore LLP, Robert S. Highsmith Jr. Holland Knight LLP, and Joseph D. Young, Atlanta, for City of Atlanta. Phillip S. McKinney, Richard H. Sinkfield, and Timothy J. Fitzmaurice Rogers Hardin LLP, Atlanta, for Atlanta Indep. Sch. Sys.. Other party representation in Case No. S16X1105: Christine L. Mast and Kimberly D. Stevens Hawkins Parnell Thackston Young LLP, Atlanta.
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    Case Number: S16A1103; S16X1105

    The Court vacated the trial court's judgment in city's declaratory judgment action involving the potential effects on the territory of school systems and the ownership of school property emanating f

  • Case v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-12-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen R. Scarborough, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, and David K. Getachew-Smith Sr., Chief Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S16A1086

    The habeas court incorrectly concluded that an affidavit showing a party's lack of notice of the final hearing cannot constitute grounds for setting the final habeas order

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  • Dawson v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-11-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean H. Joyner The Joyner Law Firm, and Keith C. Martin, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Michael D. Thurston, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Elizabeth M. Haase, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S16A0786

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions for malice murder, burglary and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime after he entered his estranged wife's house and stabbed her and

  • Glispie v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-11-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clifford L. Kurlander Public Defender's Office, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard R. Read, District Attorney, Roberta A. Earnhardt, Senior Assistant District Attorney, and Kirk M. Thomas, Assistant District Attorney, Conyers, for appellee.
    Case Number: S16G0583

    The Court of Appeals erred in ruling that all of the text messages extracted from defendant's cell phone were admissible at trial as an admission by a party-opponent, since the incoming text messag

  • Crews v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-11-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lauren B. Shubow, Kenneth D. Kondritzer, and Jessica A. Seares Public Defender's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Kevin C. Armstrong District Attorney's Office, Atlanta, Lenny I. Krick, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, 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: S16A1003

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions for murder and other offenses, but the trial court erred in failing to sentence him for a crime for which he was found guilty and properly should have

  • Nix v. 230 Kirkwood Homes LLC

    Publication Date: 2016-11-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory W. Sturgeon The Sturgeon Law Firm LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John A. B. Ayoub, Carolina D. Bryant Ayoub Mansour LLC, and Adam C. Caskey, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S16A0913

    The trial court properly declared plaintiff to be the fee simple owner of certain real property, because plaintiff properly redeemed the property after defendant failed to foreclose the right of red

  • Zarate-Martinez v. Echemendia

    Publication Date: 2016-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Beverly B. Bates Bates Baum, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Huff, Taylor M. Tribble, and Randolph P. Powell Jr. Huff, Powell Bailey LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S15G1446

    The Supreme Court vacated the trial court's dismissal of a medical malpractice complaint based on its finding that the plaintiff failed to comply with the expert affidavit requirement and remanded t