• Lockaby v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeb W. Chatham, Ellijay, for appellant.
    for defendant: Norman S. Gunter, District Attorney, Gerald W. Bruce, and Kerry I. Banister, Assistant District Attorneys, Cleveland, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0233

    The state did not improperly place defendant's character in evidence when it questioned him about a prior positive drug to impeach his unsolicited testimony that he had only one positive drug

  • Mathis v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Bearden Jr., Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Macon, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0553

    Trial counsel was not deficient for failing to call witnesses to give hearsay testimony about defendant's self-serving declara

  • Boswell v. Primary Care Prof'ls

    Publication Date: 2004-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William G. Hasty Jr., Jonathan A. Pope and Marion T. Pope Jr. Hasty, Pope & Ball, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Douglas H. Flint Flint & Connolly, Canton, for appellees.

    Case Number: A04A0186

    The plaintiffs failed to show that the corporate arrangement was a sham, used to defeat justice, to perpetrate fraud or to evade statutory, contractual or tort responsib

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul J. Oeland IV, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard R. Read, District Attorney, and Roberta A. Earnhardt, Assistant District Attorney, Conyers, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0342

    The transcript of the plea hearing and the written waiver defendant signed showed on their face that he entered his plea freely and volunt

  • In the Interest of M. E.

    Publication Date: 2004-02-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Rasnick, Manchester, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter T. Alford Daniel, Hadden & Leonard PC, James T. Hunnicutt, LaGrange, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson and Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Ricardo G. Samper, LaGrange.

    Case Number: A04A0663

    Where the evidence showed that the mother took the child to the hospital or a doctor more than 10 times in 20 months with sexual abuse allegations, the juvenile court did not abuse its discretion in

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  • Herrington v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-02-20
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randolph Frails, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0495

    The habeas court's order transferring defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel to the trial court was void ab initio as an unauthorized exercise of auth

  • Knutsen v. Atlanta Women's Specialists Obstetrics & Gynecology

    Publication Date: 2003-12-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Grant G. Morain, Atlanta, and Duncan E. Ragsdale, Memphis, Tenn., for appellant.
    for defendant: . Susan V. Sommers, Matthew P. Lazarus, Goldner, Sommers, Scrudder & Bass, Laura C. Johnson Alston & Bird, Willard T. Bullock IV and Frederick W. Ajax Jr., Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Sam Blair and Baker Donelson, Memphis, Tenn.

    Case Number: A03A2448

    The trial court tacitly allowed defendant to amend his pleadings and withdraw his alleged admission in judicio as to the date of his wife's death when it considered the entire record, including the

  • State v. Ferrell

    Publication Date: 2003-11-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard H. Taylor, Solicitor, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert L. Crowe Lane & Crowe PC, Brunswick, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A2431

    The arresting officer neither stopped, nor seized the defendant within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when he initially approached her parked car at a gas station and asked for her driver's lic

  • Bonakies v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-11-14
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Robinson III, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Alvera A. Wheeler, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1802

    The trial court properly denied defendant's plea in bar and motion for acquittal based on his speedy trial demand because he failed to comply with the provisions of O.C.G.A. § 17-

  • Knutsen v. Atlanta Women's Specialists Obstetrics & Gynecology

    Publication Date: 2003-11-14
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Grant G. Morain, Atlanta, and Duncan E. Ragsdale, Memphis, Tenn., for appellant.
    for defendant: . Susan V. Sommers, Matthew P. Lazarus, Goldner, Sommers, Scrudder & Bass, Laura C. Johnson Alston & Bird, Willard T. Bullock IV and Frederick W. Ajax Jr., Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Sam Blair and Baker Donelson, Memphis, Tenn.

    Case Number: A03A2448

    The trial court tacitly allowed defendant to amend his pleadings and withdraw his alleged admission in judicio as to the date of his wife's death when it considered the entire record, including the