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  • State v. Tucker

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, and Anthony C.L. Hing, Special Assistant District Attorney, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Reginald J.R. Bell Jr. and Mark L. Pickett Donaldson, Bell & Pickett PC, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0256

    Reliable confidential informant's tip giving specific details about defendant's transport of drugs that were corroborated by police officers' observations provided sufficient probable cause for sear

  • Hood v. Spruill

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Mottern, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Louis R. Cohan Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0050

    Property buyers who admitted they were aware of roadway easement across the property at the time of purchase could not file a breach of warranty claim against the seller when they were sued for bloc

  • In the Interest of D.M.H.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby G. Adkins Jr., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and Sanders B. Deen, Assistant Attorney General, Marietta, for appellee. Other party representation: John P. Cheeley Cheeley & King PC, Duluth, William S. Hart, Joseph T. Justice Clark & Justice and Leopold B. Babin, Marietta.
    Case Number: A00A0234

    Evidence that a mother was homeless and abusing alcohol and drugs when she lost custody of her three children, that she had little contact with them and that currently she is unable to care for them

  • Kight v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Jones King & King & Jones PC and William R. Wansker, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, and Elizabeth A. Baker, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0424

    Parents' testimony that their 11-year-old daughters stated defendant molested them was admissible since there was no evidence that the girls were coached or threatened and the children testified and

  • Boyle v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anna Blitz, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0396

    The trial court properly struck a prospective juror who repeatedly stated that she could not be impartial given her negative experience with law enforc

  • Garrett v. McDowell

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A99A2079

    Tenant's challenges to the dispossessory judgment in favor of his landlord could not be considered since he did not file a transcript as part of the appellate r

  • Goodman v. Edd's Package Store

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A00A0117

    The trial court properly denied the filing of plaintiff's pro se complaint since it did not allege any facts that would give rise to any relief in Georgia c

  • Downey v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joanne E. Elsey, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Charles M. Norman, Debra H. Bernes and Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0297

    While executing a fugitive warrant for defendant's arrest, police officers were entitled to s his entire home to locate him and secure and clear any weapons they discovered during that s

  • Woodward v. Gray

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Michael Agnew Agnew, Schlam & Bennett PC, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clifton C. Fay, Assistant City Attorney, Columbus, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A2450

    Although police officer had no probable cause to arrest plaintiff for disobeying her order to move away while she arrested plaintiff's brother, the officer had official immunity since there was no e

  • Griffin v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Staci L. Guest, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2460

    Evidence that defendant had previously threatened two people with a handgun because he was angry at them was sufficiently similar to his shooting the victim and showed his propensity to settle dispu