• Rogers v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-03-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Pickett Donaldson, Bell & Pickett PC, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth Hodges, District Attorney, Gregory Edwards and Alex Kaplan Office of the District Attorney, Albany, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0645

    The pre-trial identification testimony was admissible even though the procedure used by the police was sugge

  • Dial v. Adkins

    Publication Date: 2004-03-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Anderson Horton, Maddax & Anderson, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellant.
    for defendant: William P. Slack, Lafayette, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0510

    The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act and the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act were not the exclusive procedures available for the petition to domesticate a foreign divorce decree f

  • Mulkey v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-03-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chris E. Ambrose and Douglas K. Silvis Silvis, Ambrose & Lindquist PC, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, James E. Hardy and James L. Prine II, Assistant District Attorneys, Thomasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0783

    The trial court did not inform the defendant that she might receive a harsher sentence when the trial court told her that it intended to reject her negotiated plea agre

  • Department of Transp. v. Hardin-Sunbelt, Joint Venture

    Publication Date: 2004-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Daniel M. Formby, Deputy Attorney General, Matthew E. Cline Cline & Assocs. LLC, and George C. Reid, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lawrence A. Stockton Jr. Stockton & Stockton , Clayton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1876

    Evidence supported the jury's finding that the DOT breached its contract with plaintiff by unreasonably refusing to pay an agreed-upon lump sum for lake restoration after completion of a highway pro

  • Garvin v. Secretary of State Sec. and Bus. Div.

    Publication Date: 2004-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George T. Smith Browning & Tanksley LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, William W. Banks Jr., John B. Ballard Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, and Robin A. Golivesky Office of Secretary of State, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Fred T. Finney McCall & Finney PC, Albany.

    Case Number: A03A2145

    Some evidence showed that the defendant did not knowingly intend to violate the Georgia Securities Act by selling unregistered contracts for the sale and lease-back of coin-operated payp

  • In the Interest of A. A.

    Publication Date: 2004-02-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy T. Herring and Charles B. Pekor Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Tammy M. Griner, Griffin, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0002; A04A0003

    There was no "stop" because the juvenile driver had already stopped the vehicle before the officer approached and there was no seizure because the encounter was not threatening or coe

  • Taylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-12-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, and Rosemary W. Brewer DeKalb County District Attorney's Office, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1274

    The state did not have to prove that the rape was against he victim's will since she was under the age

  • Pinch v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-12-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William C. Head, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor General, and Frank T. Gomez, Assistant Solicitor, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A2235

    The trial court's curative instruction sufficiently eliminated possible jury consideration of the state's improper closing comments about defendant's refusal to take a breath

  • Barnes v. Turner

    Publication Date: 2003-12-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Taylor W. Jones Taylor W. Jones & Assocs., and Richard E. Harris, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John C. Rogers and Johannes S. Kingma Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A2331

    Plaintiffs were time-barred from raising a legal malpractice claim that was filed in excess of 4-years after the alleged act of negli

  • Porter v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-12-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee W. Fitzpatrick, Canton and Alison K. Frutoz, Douglas County Public Defender, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, Paul J. Miovas Jr. and James E. Barker, Assistant District Attorneys, Douglasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1688

    The trial court properly denied the defendant's motion to suppress the evidence found in a stolen Jeep Cherokee that he was driving since the officer had probable cause to briefly detain the defenda