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  • South v. Montoya

    Publication Date: 2000-06-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Roble, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: David R. Smith Branan, Searcey & Smith, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0944

    Plaintiff's substitute service on former resident's automobile insurer was not proper service since it did not comply with the statutory requirements of O.C.G.A. § 9-11-4 d and Georgia's Long Arm St

  • Banks v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David S. West and Bruce S. Harvey Law Offices of Bruce S. Harvey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, and James L. Moss Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Jackson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1222

    Defense counsel's decision not to exclude defendant's references to his prior criminal convictions in his statement to police was legitimate trial str

  • Donaldson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emory B. Bazemore, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Gregory M. McConnell, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1287

    Trial court should have merged defendant's aggravated child molestation conviction into his rape conviction, since both charges were based on the same forcible act against the 15-year-old v

  • Syms v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A00A1198

    The trial court erred in sentencing defendant for theft by receiving stolen credit and credit card theft, since both charges involved the theft of the same credit

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Hardy II, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip C. Smith, District Attorney, and Jennifer L. Pirrung, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1168

    The trial court properly disallowed evidence of accomplice's involvement in drug sales with a deputy at jail since the evidence had no exculpatory or impeachment

  • Wilder v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ruth P. Marks, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Maria B. Golick and Thomas A. Cole, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1017

    Evidence that defendant fled on foot after an of stopped his car supported his conviction for obstructing an of

  • State v. Redd

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert B. Ellis Jr., District Attorney, Timothy L. Eidson, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Ellen S. Bolden, Assistant District Attorney, Nashville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles R. Reddick Charles R. Reddick PC, Homerville, for appellee. Other party representation: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Dalton, Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, Albany, J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, Keith C. Martin, Solicitor, Jonesboro, Leslie C. Abernathy, Solicitor, Cumming, Carmen Smith, Solicitor, Atlanta, Sheryl B. Jolly, Solicitor General, Augusta, and Wensley Hobby, Solicitor, Reidsville.
    Case Number: A00A1059

    An attorney who is appointed as district attorney pro tempore may continue his private criminal practice during that appoin

  • Walker v. Crane

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rick S. Sexton Zachary & Segraves PA, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Stephen E. Boswell, Boswell & Teske LLP, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1169

    A wrecker service that hauls away a vehicle at the request of a private property owner is not responsible for notifying the police about the vehicle if it believes in good faith that the vehicle own

  • Sanders v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: M. Francis Stubbs Stubbs & Assocs., Reidsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Thomas Durden Jr., District Attorney, and Joe G. Skeens, Assistant District Attorney, Hinesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1109

    Placing the choice of "guilty" before "not guilty" on a verdict form is not improper, since it merely reflects that the jury must first decide whether the state has met its burden of

  • Vargas v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin M. Del Mazo, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman and Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1133

    Illegal alien's deportation to Mexico with an inability to return to the United States did not make her detained for purposes of O.C.G.A. § 17-6-72 b's exception to appearance bond forfe