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  • Willingham v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Blair D. Mahaffey, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2211

    Given defendant's confession to molesting his 11-year-old daughter and the corroborating medical evidence, his attorney's failure to object to evidence that defendant had sexual fantasies about his

  • Stuckey v. McCalla

    Publication Date: 2000-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward J. Dovin and Michel V. Hurley Page & Bacek, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott H. Michalove, Carol V. Clark and Peter L. Lublin McCalla, Raymer, Padrick, Cobb, Nichols & Clark, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Lewis E. Hassett, Tacita A. Scott and Jessica F. Pardi Morris, Manning & Martin LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A99A2427

    Parties' agreement tolling the statute of limitation for claims that would have expired between Dec. 29, 1988, and Jan. 15, 1990, did not toll the limitation period for plaintiff's breach of fiducia

  • Simpson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John F. McClellan Jr., Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, and Fred R. Simpson, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2400

    The state could impeach defendant's mother, who would have testified that someone stole the truck that defendant allegedly used in the burglaries, with her conviction for falsely reporting the truck

  • Millar v. Fayette County Sheriff's Dep't

    Publication Date: 2000-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Sexton Lee Sexton & Assocs. PC and John S. Mixon Jr. Foster & Foster PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Phillip P. Grant McNally, Fox & Cameron, Fayetteville, Marvin A. Devlin Thomas, Means, Gillis, Devlin, Robinson & Seay and Jennifer D. Odom Long, Weinberg, Ansley & Wheeler, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A2202

    Attorney could not seek injunction compelling sheriff's department to comply with his Open Records Act request for records related to his client's suit, since his right to seek those records through

  • Kimball v. Cedartown Med. & Therapy Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Miles L. Gammage and John S. Husser Mundy & Gammage PC, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Rebecca T. Christian and Roger S. Sumrall Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: J. Clinton Sumner Jr. Magruder & Sumner, Rome.
    Case Number: A99A2227

    Plaintiff had to file her renewal action within six months of the dismissing her original action, not within six months of the subsequent amending a typographical error in the first

  • In re The Estate of Willie R. Jackson Sr.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley E. Foster Arrington & Hollowell, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Willie R. Jackson Jr., Fairburn, proceeded pro se. Other party representation: Scott Mercer The Lawyers Surety Co., Douglasville.
    Case Number: A99A2492

    Estate administrator's failure to file proper and timely annual returns accounting for estate's receipts and expenditures merited his re

  • Vasquez v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathy S. Palmer, Swainsboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, and Samuel H. Altman, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2242

    Therapist who was the clinical director of a facility for abused children and interviewed the victim several times was qualified to testify as an expert witness for the

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica R. Towne and David E. Clark Clark & Towne PC, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor General, and Julie A. Kert, Assistant City Solicitor, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2304

    Although defendant's alcosensor breath test was inadmissible to prove that he drove with an illegal blood alcohol level, it was admissible to impeach his testimony that he drank only three beers and

  • In re Clinton

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0426

    Attorney who was disbarred in Alabama is suspended in a until he is reinstated in Alabama or until, three years after his suspension, he applies for and is reinstated to the practice of law in

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
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    Case Number: A99A2506

    Defendant was not entitled to a jail time credit on his armed ro sentence, since he would have been jailed on unrelated charges even if he had not been charged with this armed ro