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  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Clinton K. Rucker and Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorneys, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0089

    The defendant did not show that he was prejudiced by the state's failure to make his custodial statement available to him before

  • Dunn v. Royal Maccabees Life Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen H. Debaun, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel W. Wethern Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield, Knowles & Devine, Sherri M. Graves and Nancy K. Deming Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0702

    Since the insured did not designate his deceased partner as the owner of his life insurance policy, the deceased partner's wife was not entitled to the proceeds when the insured

  • Hamilton v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark T. Phillips, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clifford P. Bowden, District Attorney, Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0314

    The evidence did not support the defendant's claim that he acted in self-defense, even though the victim pointed a gun at his accomplice, since that confrontation ended, the victim and the defendant

  • Helmley v. Liberty County, Ga.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen D. Barr and Arvo H. Henifin Barr, Warner, Lloyd & Henifin, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Luther K. Davis, James N. Osteen Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold and Leon M. Braun Jr., Hinesville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A0534

    Plaintiffs' claim that the defendant's 20-year-old business violates a ant prohibiting the use of his property for commercial purposes is barred by the 2-year statute of limitation for breach o

  • Holmes v. Achor Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George O. Lawson Jr. and Alton Hornsby II Lawson & Thornton, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Milton B. Satcher III Jennings, Sparwath & Satcher LLP, Marietta, and Anna C. Palazzolo Long, Weinberg, Ansley & Wheeler LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Maureen M. Middleton Freeman, Mathis & Gary, Overtis H. Brantley Office of County Attorney and Rolesia D.B. Dancy, Associate City Attorney, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A99A1924

    It was reasonable for the defendants to believe that the plaintiff was criminally trespassing on their property because the plaintiff had been banned from the property and the injunction which gave

  • Atkinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence W. Daniel, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Irvan A. Pearlberg, Debra H. Bernes and Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1840

    Opinion testimony from officers with extensive training in the narcotics field that the substance found in defendant's apartment was marijuana, along with the presence of drug paraphernalia, support

  • Southern Prestige Homes Inc. v. Moscoso

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tom Pye Chestnut & Livingston PC, Doraville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Leon Van Gelderen and John A. Ziolo Cornelison & Van Gelderen, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1851

    The defendants did not unilaterally rescind a new home purchase and sale contract when they sent a letter to plaintiff stating that they would draft a contract termination agreement which would prov

  • Russell v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy T. Herring, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1732

    Defendant was guilty of misdemeanor obstruction when he fled his apartment, refused to stop when ordered to do so by e, tossed away the package of marijuana he was carrying and wrestled with th

  • Russell v. Superior K-9 Serv. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen V. Kern Kitchens, Kelley & Gaynes PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Henry D. Fellows Jr. Fellows, Johnson & La Briola LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Glenn A. Loewenthal Loewenthal & Jackson LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A99A2442

    Evidence that the plaintiff volunteered to let her employer's guard dog out of his pen raised a jury question as to whether she assumed the risk that the dog would attac

  • Gillespie v. AAA Pawnbrokers Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A99A1828

    The Court of Appeals assumed the judgment for defendant was correct in plaintiff's wrongful repossession suit since plaintiff failed to include a trial transcript in the appellate r