Case Digests

Mitchell v. State

Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Bennett Sr. and Jim T. Bennett The Bennett Law Firm, Valdosta, for appellant.
for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Bradfield M. Shealy, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
Case Number: A99A2445

The defendant presented no evidence to support his theory that the arresting officers edited their reports to conceal flaws in the prosecution's

In the Interest of B.G. & R.G.

Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert W. Lenzer and Thomas P. Lenzer Lenzer & Lenzer, Norcross, for appellant.
for defendant: Joseph E. Cheeley III Cheeley & King PC, Duluth, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso and Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Deborah L. Stone Gwinnett Juvenile Court, Lawrenceville.
Case Number: A99A1935

DFACS could not file for termination of parental rights in Gwinnett County, since the Court of Appeals' decision that venue for the previous child deprivation proceeding was properly in Banks Count

Ianicelli v. McNeely

Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew H. Lakin, Brunswick, Michael J. Bowers and Christopher S. Anulewicz Meadows, Ichter & Trigg PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: James A. Bishop, Brunswick, and Phillip L. Hartley Harben & Hartley, Gainesville, for appellees.
Case Number: S99A1684

School board members with spouses employed by the school system do not violate any constitutional duty, absent evidence that they intentionally acted to further their spouses' pecuniary

Barlow v. Barlow

Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph M. Todd, Jonesboro, for appellant.
for defendant: Monroe Ferguson and Ricky W. Morris Jr. Ferguson, Ferguson & Morris PC, Jonesboro, for appellee.
Case Number: S99A1309

Husband could not introduce recording of his wife's cordless telephone conversation with another in their divorce action, since O.C.G.A. § 16-11-62 4 prohibits interception of such calls and she had

Blaylock v. State

Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Ruffin, John H.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frederick M. Scherma, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Debra H. Bernes and Irvan A. Pearlberg, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
Case Number: A99A1648

Evidence that defendant had a crack pipe in his possession at the time of his arrest was admissible as res g

Glynn-Brunswick Mem'l Hosp. Auth. v. Gibbons

Publication Date: 2000-03-08
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
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Case Number: A99A1868, A99A1869, A99A1870

Cox v. State

Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Doyle, John J.
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Case Number: A99A2374, A99A2375, A00A0173

Defendant was not entitled to severance of his trial from that of his co-defendants even if the evidence showed he kicked the victim only once and that the majority of the victim's injuries were ca

Mills v. Norfolk S. Ry. Co.

Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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Case Number: A99A2324, A99A2325

Since federal regulations require the same warnings from all railroad crossing automatic warning devices, evidence that some of railroad's devices previously gave delayed warnings was admissible in

York v. State

Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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Case Number: A00A0152, A00A0153, A00A0154, A00A0155, A00A0352

Defendant could not receive separate sentences on his two cocaine trafficking convictions merely because the cocaine found in his car had a different chemical composition from that found in his

City of Byron v. Betancourt

Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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Case Number: A99A2378, A99A2379

The trial court's judgment that the city's annexation and rezoning of certain property was void was presumably correct, since the city failed to submit a transcript as part of the appellate r