• Tant v. Purdue

    Publication Date: 2006-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: S. Lester Tate III and William M. Akin Akin & Tate, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark A. Adelman, Marietta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A06A0821

    The individual defendant was performing a discretionary act, when he concluded from his police investigation that the plaintiff drove recklessly and under the influence on the night he was involved

  • Rolfe v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott P. Semrau, Rockmart, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amelia G. Pray and Thomas A. Cole, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A0238

    Under the totality circumstance, the officer had probable cause to believe that the defendant was about to engage in criminal activity when he left a closed store's parking lot in the middle

  • Ferrill v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William C. Lea and Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Griffin, and Cindy L. Spindler, Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A2149

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting certain sexually explicit material obtained from the defendant's home because, in each case, the state linked the object introduced to the c

  • Sani-Agri Servs. Inc. v. City of Albany

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Misty G. Haskins Perry & Walters LLP, and George P. Donaldson III, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick T. O'Connor Oliver, Maner & Gray, Savannah, and Charles N. Davis, Albany, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A2323

    Res judicata barred the plaintiff's claims against the city of Albany arising out of the parties' sludge disposal con

  • McGrath v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Camp, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, and David C. Walker, Assistant District Attorney, Carnesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A2067

    The trial court did not err in charging the jury on the "rescue doctrine," since it was relevant for the jury to determine whether the defendant's actions in running into a vehicle head-on substanti

  • Sellers v. Sellers

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan D. Raymond and Philip T. Raymond III Shaffer, Raymond & Dalton, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roxanne M. Hinson Westmoreland, Patterson & Moseley, Macon, for appellees. Other party representation: Jon-Selby R. Hawk Sell & Melton LLP, Macon.

    Case Number: A05A1842

    The evidence showed that the mother significantly failed to support her child for one year prior to the filing of the adoption pet

  • Waddell v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. M. Raffauf, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A1961

    The trial court did not err in charging the jury on parties to a crime, since the aggravated assault and armed robbery victim saw a second individual at the crime scene and did not actually see the

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore Georgia Indigent Defense Council and Amy Vosburg-Casey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A2319

    Judicial Estoppel barred the defendant from asserting a position in his current a which was inconsistent with the position he asserted in his prior successful a

  • Corbett v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Walker III, Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clifford P. Bowden, District Attorney, Kevin E. Hutto and Bradford L. Rigby, Assistant District Attorneys, Tifton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A1635

    The defendant admitted drinking four or five beers on the day he fatally s the victim with his

  • Briglevich v. Liberty House Restaurant Corp.

    Publication Date: 2006-02-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Aleksandra H. Bronsted and Heather L. James Aleksandra H. Bronsted PC, Chamblee, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frederick A. Johnson, Duluth, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A2002

    The plaintiff could not complain that the trial court initially grant defendant's motion to exclude evidence of other slips and falls at its restaurant, since the plaintiff later fully presen