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  • Garland v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Billy M. Grantham, Donalsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Anthony E. Paulsen III, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1653

    Defendant who knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to counsel and represented hi on the first day of trial could not claim that he ineffectively represented hi

  • In re Betts

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0168

    The Supreme Court reinstated an attorney who was disbarred in 1986 for committing forgery and theft based on his s ful rehabilitation, including his pursuit of advanced theological studies and

  • Garrett v. McDowell

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A99A2079

    Tenant's challenges to the dispossessory judgment in favor of his landlord could not be considered since he did not file a transcript as part of the appellate r

  • In re Duncan

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0187

    Attorney's petition to voluntarily surrender his license accepted based on his guilty plea to making a false material declaration to a federal grand

  • Billups v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
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    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

  • Goodman v. Edd's Package Store

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A00A0117

    The trial court properly denied the filing of plaintiff's pro se complaint since it did not allege any facts that would give rise to any relief in Georgia c

  • In re Tarver

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0721

    Attorney suspended for 45 days based on his admitted 45-day suspension in Alabama for conduct that would violate Standard 12 of Bar Rule 4-

  • In re Bates

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0766

    Attorney's petition to voluntarily surrender her license accepted based on her admitted failure to pursue divorce and child support actions, and her closing her practice without notifying her client

  • Hambrick v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles D. Joyner, Blackshear, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, and James D. Lamb, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2440, A99A2441

    In response to the jurors asking whether defendants were charged merely with striking correctional officers or also with threatening those officers and refusing to be handcuffed, the trial court pro

  • In the Interest of A.M.L.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amelia G. Pray, Austell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and Sanders B. Deen, Assistant Attorney General, Marietta, for appellee. Other party representation: Charles E. Clark and Clay R. Thompson, Marietta.
    Case Number: A99A2477

    Evidence that mother repeatedly abandoned her son to the care of others and suffered from a disabling psychiatric disorder supported termination of her parental r