• Shields v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-03-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Begnaud, Assistant Public Defender, and H. Bradford Morris Jr. Public Defender's Office, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, and Lindsay H. Burton, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A2281

    Trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to several witnesses' testimony that, while reflecting badly on the defendant's character, explained that they had erroneously identified him

  • Louisyr v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sharon L. Hopkins, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Kimberly A. Gallant, Latysha M. Saunders, Assistant District Attorneys, and Wesley C. Ross District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A2309

    The defendant's two convictions for aggravated stalking did not merge for sentencing purposes because the defendant followed the victim to a hotel and then attempted to make contact wit

  • B-T Two Inc. v. Bennett

    Publication Date: 2011-02-11
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig N. Cowart, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: David L. Smith Langford, Smith & Kapilopp, Macon, for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A1716

    A company was not liable for negligently sponsoring a party with unlimited alcohol because, to the extent that plaintiff's assailants were intoxicated at the time of the assault and their intoxicati

  • Miller v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-01-14
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy L. Eidson, Public Defender, Cordele, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, Cordele, and James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Public Defender Standard's Council, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A2405

    The suspension of the defendant's partial sentence revocation, upon completion of a substance abuse treatment program two days before the grant of his application for discretionary appeal mooted his

  • Ferguson v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-12-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Corbin, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and John S. Helton, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A1361

    A video camera recorded the theft of the vehicle in question, and the defendant admitted that he was the man in the recordings, walking past the vehicle more than once, wearing similar clothing to t

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  • Paxton v. Citizens Bank & Trust of W. Georgia

    Publication Date: 2010-12-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl G. Kleeman IV Brock, Clay, Calhoun & Rogers LLC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph N. Smith, Charles S. Conerly, and Randall C. Parian Smith Diment Conerly LLP, Carrollton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A1255

    Personal jurisdiction existed where Alabama company's members understood that company was formed for the purpose of developing property in Georgia, and its members availed itself to the law of Georg

  • Hawkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-12-17
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Katherine A. Gonos, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Justo C. Cabral III, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A1575

    The trial court did not err in denying defendant's motion to suppress because the officer had reason to believe that evidence of the crime for which he arrested defendant would be found in the vehic