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  • Woodson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen T. Smith, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2110

    Before sentencing defendant as a recidivist, the trial court should have determined whether his five prior out-of-state felony convictions were for conduct that would have constituted felonies in Ge

  • Jordan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerome C. McKee, Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Benjamin M. First, Special Assistant District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2275

    Evidence that office manager issued over $50,000 in unauthorized checks from her employer's account made out to herself, her cousin and her fianc supported her convictions on 31 counts of fo

  • Brewer v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael R. McCarthy, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and Stephen E. Spencer, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A98A1672

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that defendant's aggravated sodomy conviction should be vacated since the state presented no evidence that he used force to commit sodomy ag

  • Hamilton v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Tracy, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Victoria Spear-Darrisaw, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0605

    Informant's testimony that he discovered defendant was selling cocaine out of his home was admissible to show the circumstances leading to defendant's a

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer N. Foster, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker and David E. Langford, Assistant District Attorneys, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellants: James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council and Michael Mears Multicounty Public Defender, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S99G0759

    Trial courts have discretion to admit expert testimony regarding the reliability of an eyewitness's identific

  • Accolades Apartments LP v. Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
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    Case Number: A00A0143, A00A0144

    Creditors of joint venture's individual members could place liens against joint venture's property, since deed conveying property to joint venture did not state that a partnership interest ex

  • Rittenhouse v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
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    Case Number: S99A1718, S99A1721

    Defendant's booking photograph was admissible since he had changed his appearance dramatically since the murder and witnesses had difficulty identifyin

  • Brandon v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1824

    The trial court should not have charged that the jury did not have to believe incredible, impossible or inherently improbable testimony, since defendant's claimed alibi was not impossible as running

  • Bearden v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney L. Mathis, Calhoun, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Cartersville, and Rebecca B. Paris, Assistant District Attorney, Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0189, A00A0190

    The trial court properly denied a continuance to defendant who waited until the Saturday before trial to try to hire an att

  • Blair v. Blair

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert G. Nardone, Avondale Estates, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shelby A. Outlaw The Outlaw Firm, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1459

    Parties' divorce decree required that defendant pay premiums to maintain his ex-wife's health insurance coverage at a level as close as possible to what she had under defendant's policy during their