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  • Dudley v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Franklin H. Thornton, LaGrange for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick J. McDonough, District Attorney, Denise D. Fachini, Acting District Attorney, Cordele, and David N. Marple, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2269

    Since police chief resigned before he was charged with simple battery for pepper-spraying a city council member, the procedural protections of O.C.G.A. § 17-7-52 for police officers charged with com

  • Willis v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellis R. Garnett, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2316

    The trial court properly charged that, since defendant testified on his own behalf, the jury could consider his interest in the outcome of his prosecution in weighing his credib

  • DeLoach v. Rovema Corp.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cletus W. Bergen II, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert S. Glenn Jr., Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A2431

    Since defendant only sold and did not manufacture the machine that injured plaintiff, it had no duty to warn of the machine's dangers that arose or were discovered after the time of the

  • Roberts v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emmett J. Arnold, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor, and Evelyn Proctor, Assistant Solicitor, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2216

    A police officer properly stopped defendant for improper parking after observing him stop for four minutes in a no-parking area of a two-lane road without discharging any passe

  • Yarbrough v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry N. Massey, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan A. Cook, District Attorney, and Jennifer E. Greene, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2517

    Defendant's blood test results were admissible since it is unlikely that his consent resulted from officer's misreading the implied consent warning to state that a blood-alcohol level of 0.010 was il

  • Adams v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel C. Finster Sr., Summerville, and William U. Hyden Jr., Trion, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, and Bruce E. Roberts, Assistant District Attorney, LaFayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2215

    The trial court acted reasonably in banishing defendant for 30 years from the counties of its judicial circuit in the event he is improperly paroled from his 30-year recidivist sentence for selling

  • In the Interest of H.D.McC.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry H. Tatum, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Dennis R. Dunn, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and John L. Welsh II, Lawrenceville, for appellee. Other party representation: Deborah L. Stone Gwinnett Juvenile Court and Debra W. Hale, Lawrenceville.
    Case Number: A99A2498

    Evidence that father waited six months to comply with court's directive that he legitimate his child, that he had a history of drug abuse and that he infrequently visited the child supported termina

  • Tomlinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Charles D. Gafnea, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2134, A99A2135

    Named informant's statement that he purchased marijuana from defendants at their was against his penal interest and provided probable cause for the search warrant for defendants'

  • Parks v. McClung

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert E. Toone Jr. and Stephen B. Bright Southern Ctr. for Human Rights, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . George R. Ellis Jr. Ellis, Easterlin, Peagler, Gatewood & Skipper, Americus, for appellee. Amicus appellants: Mary W. Whiteman Whiteman & Whiteman, Decatur, Michael B. Shapiro and James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S99A0712

    The trial court did not have to inform defendants of the dangers of proceeding pro se before they entered their guilty pleas without the assistance of co

  • Hall v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David S. West and Bruce S. Harvey Law Offices of Bruce S. Harvey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker and Gregory K. Schwarz, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2201

    Since defendant abandoned his backpack containing co by dropping it before he fled police, he could not challenge the admissibility of the co