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  • In the Interest of C.P.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wanda G. Johnson, Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Laura W. Hyman, Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and W. Ashley Hawkins, Forsyth, for appellee. Other party representation: C. Robert Melton Haygood, Lynch, Harris & Melton, Forsyth, and Edith J. Gilbert, Savannah.
    Case Number: A99A2144

    Evidence that the father lied about his criminal record in a prior termination hearing, was presently incarcerated and faced revocation of his felony probation supported the juvenile court's finding

  • Bolden v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William C. Head, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor General, and June D. Green, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A98A1828

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment reversing the defendant's DUI conviction because the state improperly commented on the credibility of its only wi

  • Rice v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby L. Cook, L. Branch Connelly and Rex B. Abernathy Cook & Connelly, Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, and Leigh E. Patterson, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0565

    Even though a child witness in defendant's later recanted his testimony in a subsequent defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to cross-examine that witness at defendant's

  • Fugarino v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott R. King Slater, King & Gross, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and George F. Hutchinson III, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1781

    The defendant committed computer trespass when he deleted large portions of a computer pr that he was working on for his employer without authority to delete any part of that pr

  • Sinyard v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas E. White, Cochran, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Vaughn, District Attorney, Russell P. Spivey and James E. Turk, Assistant District Attorneys, Eastman, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1663

    The trial court should have granted the defendant's motion for a mistrial when a prospective juror commented during voir dire that the defendant had cheated her friend since the comment tainted the

  • In the Interest of G.P.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carlton K. Nelson III, Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ralph M. Walke, District Attorney, and Judson Green IV, Assistant District Attorney, Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0288

    Circumstantial evidence that the juvenile tried to pawn an identical compact disc player shortly after the burglary was sufficient to support his delinquency adjudication since that evidence was inc

  • Sanchez v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A00A0850

    The state was not motivated by vindictiveness when it reindicted the defendant for possessing 400 grams of cocaine after his mistrial on possession of 28 grams because it did not know the actual qua

  • Ligon v. Bartis

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A00A0844

    Plaintiff could not avoid enforcement of settlement by claiming th attorney was not authorized to settle, since attorneys have apparent authority to settle and plaintiff never told defendant t

  • Ellison v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A99A2495

    Even if the police violated a statute entitling the defendant to a preliminary hearing within 48 hours of his warrantless arrest, the defendant's conviction for cocaine possession was not in

  • Swanson v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lecora Bowen Lecora Bowen & Assocs., College Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Melynee C. Leftridge Sharon W. Ware & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2419

    The uninsured motorist carrier could assert its defense that the tortfeasor was never served, even though it failed to include that defense in the proposed pretrial