• Ross v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Thalhimer, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Irvan A. Pearlberg and Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A2385

    The pro se defendant's convictions were reversed because the record did not show that he made a valid waiver of counsel prior to

  • Hill v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wayne L. Burnaine, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Winder, and Brian M. Rickman, Assistant District Attorney, Homer, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A2230

    Statements made by the robbery victim, who died five days after the incident, were admissible under the necessity exception to the hearsay

  • Sanders v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Sexton and Joseph S. Key Sexton & Morris PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Lalaine A. Briones, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1516

    The trial court did not err in failing to instruct the jury on a lesser included offense where the defendant did not request such a change in wr

  • Medders v. The Kroger Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jack F. Witcher, Bremen, for appellant.
    for defendant: Deborah A. Heineman and Douglas A. Wilde Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1288

    Plaintiff failed to show that a grocery store had constructive knowledge of a foreign substance on the floor where its employee had inspected the area only 5 to 10 minutes before plaintiff slipped a

  • Pullin v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, and Jeanne M. Canavan, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A0839

    The murder victim's daughter identified defendant as the person who pointed a gun at her when she went to the garage to investigate a shot and her mother's s

  • J. Andrew Lunsford Props. LLC v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Wilson Webb, Tanner & Powell LLP, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John J. Maurer Stevens & Assocs., Atlanta, James B. McClung, Duluth, and Susan M. Garrett, Decatur, for appellees.

    Case Number: A02A0980

    A provision in a real estate sales contract which provided for the reservation of a right-of-way did not survive the closing where the seller deeded the entire lot to the defendant without reservat

  • White v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sharon L. Hopkins, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Amira A. Arshad, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1007

    Defendant's reasons for striking five white prospective jurors were pretextual because he accepted similarly situated jurors of another

  • Brittian v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virgil L. Brown, Eric D. Hearn, Larkin M. Lee and T. Robert Perkerson Virgil L. Brown & Assocs., Zebulon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Stokely, Solicitor General, Seay VanPatten-Poulakos, Chief Assistant Solicitor General, and Robert W. Smith Jr., Assistant Solicitor General, Newnan, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1635

    The arresting officer did not need articulable suspicion to speak with defendant in the parking lot of a gas st

  • Cordy v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence Lewis, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Shampa Banerji, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1166

    The victim's identification of the defendant as the man who robbed him of his wallet and car keys at gunpoint supported defendant's armed robbery convi

  • Blount v. Chambers

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Everett, Ailey, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jessie M. Chambers, Stella L. Chambers, Ailey, and Barney Chambers, Virginia Beach, Va., proceeded pro se.

    Case Number: A02A0965

    The availability of two alternate reasonable routes to plaintiffs' landlocked property which had been in use by the public for over 40 years precluded the plaintiffs from seeking a private way over