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  • 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

  • Gosdin v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emmett J. Arnold IV, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, D. Brandon Hornsby, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wesley S. Wood, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1807

    Police chief could interrogate defendant immediately after he waived extradition since defendant waived his rights, without invoking his right to co

  • Monroe v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Waldrop Gentry & Waldrop, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard R. Read, District Attorney, Nancy N. Bills, Assistant District Attorney, Conyers, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1771

    Evidence that the defendant threatened to kill the victim after she ended their 20-year relationship and that the bloodstains on his jacket matched her DNA was so overwhelming that it overcame the t

  • Grant v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth Lane, Macon, and James C. Bonner Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles H. Weston, District Attorney, Howard Z. Simms, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, and Wayne G. Tillis, Assistant District Attorney, Fort Valley, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99G1267

    The trial court should have granted the defendant's motion for a new trial since the jury in his criminal case was never swo

  • Hayes v. Clark

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark W. Straughan Straughan & Straughan, McRae, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ralph F. Simpson Simpson & Cross, Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0350

    Mother had a duty as trustee not to spend her daughter's personal injury settlement funds, since foreign state court's order that she hold the funds in trust until daughter's 18th birthday created