• Reyes v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher G. Paul Levinson & Paul PC, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Sharon M. Fox, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A2232

    Evidence that the defendant's 3-year-old was found alone in the street on prior occasions showed that the defendant failed to supervise her on the day she was found unconscious in a neighbor's

  • In the Interest of B.G. & R.G.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert W. Lenzer and Thomas P. Lenzer Lenzer & Lenzer, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph E. Cheeley III Cheeley & King PC, Duluth, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso and Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Deborah L. Stone Gwinnett Juvenile Court, Lawrenceville.

    Case Number: A99A1935

    DFACS could not file for termination of parental rights in Gwinnett County, since the Court of Appeals' decision that venue for the previous child deprivation proceeding was properly in Banks Count

  • Ceramic & Metal Coatings Corp. v. Hizer

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allan L. Parks Jr. and Mary A. Walser Parks, Chesin & Miller PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William G. Leonard, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A99A2069

    Employment agreement barring defendant from competing with his former employer in territories where he never worked and from seeking employment with a similar business was over

  • Goddard v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Moulton, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard R. Read, District Attorney, and Robert G. Mikell, Assistant District Attorney, Conyers, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1858

    The defendant's requested charge on alcohol concentration in relation to liters of breath was irrelevant and would have confused the

  • Patterson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie G. Patterson and Yasma Patterson, LaGrange, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary B. Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Christopher S. Brasher, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and James J. Phillips, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1760

    Defendant had no standing to bring a constitutional challenge to the st criminalizing the playing of loud music in an automobile, since he was never charged with violating the st

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelley A. Dial, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1665

    Defendant who did not inform the trial court why he needed an independent expert to test his and the victim's blood for alcohol and drugs was not entitled to funds or to a continuance for that te

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick C. Cork Cork & Cork, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Jennifer A. Thomas, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A2049

    The fact that defendant entered an apartment after a police officer ordered him not to did not support his criminal trespass conviction, since the police officer was not the owner or lawful occupant

  • Bluain v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn M. Friedewald, Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Jeanne M. Canavan, Maria Murcier-Ashley and Thomas S. Clegg, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1740

    Evidence that defendant led his rape victim between the rooms of her house with his hand tightly around her neck and that she had bruises on her neck supported his conviction for kidnapping with bod

  • Brewer v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael R. McCarthy, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and Stephen E. Spencer, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A98A1672

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that defendant's aggravated sodomy conviction should be vacated since the state presented no evidence that he used force to commit sodomy ag

  • Peachtree Plastics Inc. v. Verhine

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William R. Carlisle, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: John B. Degonia Jr., Covington, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1826

    Although corporate defendant's answer was defective because the company president who filed it was not an att it cured the defect by submitting an amended answer filed by its att