CopyCited 15 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | May 4, 1989 | 259 Ga. 195
...Frank C. Winn, District Attorney, William H. McClain, Assistant District Attorney, for appellees. BELL, Justice. This appeal concerns whether investigatory files in a criminal prosecution must be disclosed under the Open Records Act, OCGA §
50-18-70 to §
50-18-75, [1] when a murder conviction and death sentence *196 resulting from the prosecution have been affirmed on appeal, but a rape conviction has been reversed on a ground that leaves the state free to retry the defendant....
...ddressed by the court. Judgment reversed and remanded. All the Justices concur, except Marshall, C. J., and Smith, J., who dissent. MARSHALL, Chief Justice, dissenting. I respectfully dissent. In my opinion, the Open Records Act, OCGA §
50-18-70 to §
50-18-75, has no application to this case....
CopyCited 9 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Jul 3, 1991 | 261 Ga. 410, 19 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1063
...556,
385 S.E.2d 406 (1989), we remanded this case to the trial court for it to determine whether an inquest by Kilgore, the Coroner of Muscogee County, must be open to the public under either our Open Meetings Act, OCGA §§
50-14-1 to
50-14-6, or our Open Records Act, OCGA §§
50-18-70 to
50-18-75, On remand the appellee newspaper publisher also sought access under the First Amendment to the U.S....
CopyCited 2 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Feb 27, 1992 | 413 S.E.2d 725, 43 Fulton County D. Rep. 18
...646-647 (hereinafter appellee will be referred to as “the judge”) had the authority to issue the order that is the subject of this appeal. Without the benefit of an adversary proceeding, the judge interpreted the Open Records Act, OCGA §§
50-18-70 to
50-18-75, as not permitting a private citizen to swear out an arrest warrant against a public official for a violation of the Act,1 and ordered all judicial officers and judges in the Fifth Judicial District, see OCGA §
15-5-2, and the Atlanta Judic...
