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  • In re Heard

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0122

    Attorney suspended for six months after she failed to file her client's divorce action or account for the client's

  • Sacco v. State Court of DeKalb County

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
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    Case Number: S00A0538

    Since rial court can adequately address the plaintiff's claim that it lacks jurisdiction in his criminal case and he can appeal that decision, the plaintiff is not entitled to a writ prohibitin

  • In re Keaton

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0897

    Attorney disbarred for telling client she would ask district attorney to dead-docket his criminal case and then failing to contact district attorney or appear at client's

  • Jordan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A00A0340

    Defendant's kidnapping conviction reversed since he seized the victim in Polk C but was tried in Cobb C

  • In re Sowa

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0957

    Attorney voluntarily surrendered his license based on his guilty plea in federal court to 27 counts of mail fraud in violation of 18 USC § 1341 and

  • Widener v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: D. Duston Tapley Jr. Tapley & Assocs., Vidalia, for appellant.
    for defendant: David B. Pittman, Solicitor General, Lyons, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1645

    Evidence that defendant was sitting within arm's reach of marijuana officers discovered on a coffee table and that his companions were smoking marijuana when police arrived supported his convi

  • Lowery v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. O'Dell, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, and Martha P. Jacobs, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0257

    Eyewitnesses' testimony that they saw defendant hit the victim with his gun and then shoot the victim supported his aggravated assault convi

  • O'Brien v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elaine T. McGruder, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor General, and Rand J. Csehy, Assistant Solicitor, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1876

    Defendant was not entitled to a new trial even though defense counsel confused the names of two jurors and struck the wrong one, because the juror who remained was not openly prejudiced against her

  • Neidiger/Tucker/Bruner Inc. v. SunTrust Bank

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Larson Brock, Clay, Calhoun, Wilson & Rogers, Marietta, Frank W. Visciano and Luis Toro Senn, Lewis & Visciano PC, Denver, Colo., for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert L. Rothman and Aaron M. Danzig Arnall, Golden & Gregory, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0140

    Bank that acted as transfer agent for the sale of stock shares had a duty to disclose to the stockbroker who accepted those shares from a customer as margin trading collateral that the customer's r

  • In re Mauldin

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael W. Tyler and Audra A. Dial Kilpatrick Stockton, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Thomaston, and James E. Hardin, Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2095

    The trial court properly sentenced defendant to three days in jail after he chose to perform in an out-of-state music tour instead of reporting for jury duty after the superior court denied his waiv