• Sullivan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ray C. Smith, Solicitor General, Richmond Hill, and Lloyd D. Murray Lloyd D. Murray & Assocs., Pembroke, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A2471

    Even if the officers unlawfully searched the defendant's property when they walked around a locked gate without a warrant, the defendant was not harmed since he claimed he shot the victim in self de

  • Peters v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Maria Murcier-Ashley and Thomas S. Clegg, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A2046

    Officers were not authorized to stop and search the defendant just because he appeared nervous and hurried to his car when he saw the officers outside his apartment co

  • Georgia Lottery Corp. v. Sumner

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A99A2010, A99A2011

    Although the stray printing mark on plaintiff's instant game lottery ticket looked like the winning symbol, the mark was a printing error that voided the ticket due to irregul

  • Crown Diamond Co. v. N.Y. Diamond Corp.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald L. Cook McGee & Oxford, Wayne D. Taylor and Lawrence B. Domenico Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leon V. Gelderen Cornelison & Van Gelderen, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A2346, A99A2347

    Appellant's forgetting to file the transcript of a hearing that it included in the appellate record was inexcusable and unreasonably delayed the docketing of its a

  • Lang v. Becham

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley J. Survant and W. Carl Reynolds Reynolds & McArthur, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thomas C. Alexander Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, for appellees. Other party representation: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Brenda A. Raspberry, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A99A2345

    Decedent's wife presented evidence that a deputy recklessly disregarded proper law enforcement procedures when he continued to pursue a suspect who turned onto a two-way road and collided head on w

  • Ferro v. Boswell

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fred L. Cavalli, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: John K. Train IV and Earl W. Gunn Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A2435

    Evidence that the plaintiff's post-surgical knee problems may have resulted from her failure to follow her doctor's instructions entitled the doctor to a comparative negligence c

  • In the Interest of C.P.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wanda G. Johnson, Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Laura W. Hyman, Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and W. Ashley Hawkins, Forsyth, for appellee. Other party representation: C. Robert Melton Haygood, Lynch, Harris & Melton, Forsyth, and Edith J. Gilbert, Savannah.

    Case Number: A99A2144

    Evidence that the father lied about his criminal record in a prior termination hearing, was presently incarcerated and faced revocation of his felony probation supported the juvenile court's finding

  • Brinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chris E. Ambrose and Douglas K. Silvis Silvis & Ambrose PC, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Mark E. Mitchell, Assistant District Attorney, Thomasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A2156

    The was no evidence that the victim's mother, stepfather and a ch tness conspired to prejudice defendant when they testified that he had been in prison, was on probation and had kidnapped the c

  • Cummings v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James P. Theodocion, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1736

    Although the officers detained defendant while they executed a search warrant on a motel they did not initiate a custodial interrogation by asking him whether he owned a jacket found in the

  • In the Interest of L.H., N.H. & W.H.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James K. Knight Jr., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso and Sanders D. Deen, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: David C. Butler, Kenneth R. Croy and Reagan W. Dean, Marietta.

    Case Number: A99A1893

    Evidence that the father had not seen his children or provided a drug assessment in four years, owed more than $15,000 in child support and had no home of his own supported the termination of his p