• Hendon v. Superior Roofing Co. of Ga. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David S. Walker Jr., Lilburn, and W. Phillip McCurdy III McCurdy & Stone, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frederic S. Beloin, Charles W. Brown Beloin & Assocs., and Thomas S. Bechtel Crim & Bassler, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0355

    Evidence that homeowner refused to pay roof installer based on a deficiency list that he claimed a roof inspector prepared but that he actually wrote supported installer's award of bad faith attorne

  • Cobb Ctr. Pawn & Jewelry Brokers Inc. v. Gordon

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael L. Wetzel, Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kirby G. Bailey, Decatur, for appellees. Other party representation: Horace J. Johnson Jr. Johnson, Freeman & Perkins-Hooker LLC, and Reed Edmondson Jr. Reed Edmondson Jr. PC, Covington.

    Case Number: A00A0421

    Pawnbroker should not have repossessed vehicle pledged as collateral from third party who purchased it without knowledge that the pawnbroker had any interest in it, since the pawnbroker failed to re

  • Hamilton v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Tracy, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Victoria Spear-Darrisaw, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0605

    Informant's testimony that he discovered defendant was selling cocaine out of his home was admissible to show the circumstances leading to defendant's a

  • Accolades Apartments LP v. Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A00A0143, A00A0144

    Creditors of joint venture's individual members could place liens against joint venture's property, since deed conveying property to joint venture did not state that a partnership interest ex

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell D. Durham, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Debra H. Bernes and Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0069

    Defendant failed to show his attorney was ineffective merely because the attorney had an unfriendly relationship with the state's confidential informant stemming from his previous representation of

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  • Burns v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael G. Schiavone and Steven L. Sparger Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1206

    On remand from the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals vacated defendant's sentence and remanded with direction that the trial court consider defendant for first offender treatment, since he was co

  • Billups v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A00A0498, A00A0628, A00A0708

    Even if co-defendant truthfully testified that he alone committed the armed robbery and aggravated assault, evidence that the other three defendants accompanied him and talked and laughed about it a

  • Silcox v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Millard G. Gouge, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0519

    Defense counsel engaged in trial tactics when he called defendant as the only defense witness, since he wished to retain the right to closing arguments and other witnesses' testimony would have been

  • Garrard v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virgil L. Brown and Bentley C. Adams III Virgil L. Brown & Assocs., Zebulon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Michael E. Hobbs, Deputy Attorney General, Patrick D. Deering Patrick D. Deering & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, and Robert G. Morton, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0324

    Defendant's indic on RICO charges in one county did not bar his subsequent indic on similar charges in another county, since different facts supported each indic

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clyde M. Urquhart, Woodbine, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Brunswick, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0123

    Defendant could be sentenced as a recidivist on his Georgia armed robbery conviction since his previous Florida convictions involved his robbing two victims while he held a shotgun and were serious