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  • Shelton v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Alexander, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorney, and Jesse D. Evans Cobb County District Attorney's Office, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1609

    Defendant's race-neutral reasons for striking three white prospective jurors were neither reasonably specific, nor related to the

  • State v. Underwood

    Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald N. Blaney Jr., Solicitor, Emilien O. Loiselle Jr. and Jeffrey P. Kwiatkowski, Assistant Solicitors, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glyndon C. Pruitt, Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1642

    The arresting officer did not need reasonable suspicion to approach defendant's parked car and ask what was goi

  • Urrutia v. Jewell

    Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P. McFarland McFarland & Assocs., Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas R. Daum, Snellville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0856

    The trial court did not err in allowing evidence of defendant's four prior embezzlement convictions for impeachment pur

  • McGee v. Gast

    Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David W. Griffeth, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stanley R. Durden, Athens, Daniel S. Wright and Karsten Bicknese Seacrest, Korcsh, Tate & Bicknese, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1440

    Defendant did not accuse plaintiff of a crime punishable by law when he commented to an office manager for the Boy Scouts of America that he observed plaintiff, his son and the office manager's son

  • Corson v. Marbel

    Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent D. Sowerby, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph H. Ferrier Ferrier & Sowerby, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0983

    The mere fact that the defendant and her new husband have a baby dau does not relieve her from her statutorily determined obligation to provide child support for her 16-year-old dau

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Linnie L. Darden III Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Durden Jr., District Attorney, and Lewis M. Groover Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Hinesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1293; A02A1294

    Evidence that the defendant slashed the first victim across the throat during a melee and that defendant was involved in a knife assault on the second victim supported defendant's convictions for tw

  • Stott v. Mody

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brent J. Savage Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman and Robert S. Kraeuter, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Mark D. Johnson Gilbert, Harrell, Gilbert, Sumerford & Martin, Brunswick, and Sarah B. Akins Ellis, Painter, Ratterree & Bart LLP, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1231

    Plaintiffs' claims for emotional distress arising out of defendant's attempt to collect a debt were barred by their prior suit against defendant's employer for the same conduct which resulted in a

  • English v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek A. Wright The Wright Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Wesley C. Ross District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1597

    The arresting officer did not need reasonable suspicion to speak with defendant in a car parked on a public

  • Wilcox v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcus C. Chamblee Center for Prisoner's Legal Assistance, Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Lalaine A. Briones, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1136

    The trial court adopted an inflexible rule in refusing to consider first offender treatment in armed robbery

  • Gaston v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark J. Nathan, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Thomas M. Cerbone, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1238

    Officers found approximately $77,500 worth of powdered and crack cocaine in defendant's vehicle when they stopped him for a missing tag