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  • In re Thigpen

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0185, S00Y0240

    Attorney suspended indefinitely for abandoning clients' cases and failing to return their retainers and files as a result of his severe depre

  • In re J.L.A.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
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    Case Number: S00A0242

    Florida attorney is ineligible for sit for the Georgia Attorney's Examination, since the Florida Supreme Court injunction barring him from soliciting business from Valujet accident victims' families

  • Jones v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
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    Case Number: A99A2369

    The trial court properly dismissed defendant's answer and entered a forfeiture judgment against him since the answer was not verified and did not contain information regarding the seized property r

  • Phillips v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie G. Patterson and Yasma Patterson, LaGrange, for appellant.
    for defendant: Louis J. Kirby, Solicitor General, LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2501

    Even though the defendant only pleaded guilty to driving while a less safe driver, the trial court properly sentenced her to 24 hours in jail because she admitted that her blood alcohol level wa

  • Shields v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph A. Homans Fox, Chandler, Homans, Hicks & McKinnon, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, Margaret Schnee-Gregory, Deputy District Attorney, Gainesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1774

    Since there was no evidence that the defendant and the victim struggled or otherwise indicated that defendant shot herself in self-defense, evidence of the victim's prior violent acts was inadmis

  • Woodward v. Gray

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Michael Agnew Agnew, Schlam & Bennett PC, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clifton C. Fay, Assistant City Attorney, Columbus, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A2450

    Although police officer had no probable cause to arrest plaintiff for disobeying her order to move away while she arrested plaintiff's brother, the officer had official immunity since there was no e

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Mason, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, and Alonza Whitaker, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2396

    The victim's in-court identification of defendant as the robber was not tainted by the show-up at the victim's home 10 days after the crime, since the victim based his testimony on several clear vie

  • Griffin v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Staci L. Guest, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2460

    Evidence that defendant had previously threatened two people with a handgun because he was angry at them was sufficiently similar to his shooting the victim and showed his propensity to settle dispu

  • Raley v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronnie J. Lane, Donalsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Minerva S. Cansino, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2410

    Evidence that defendant understood the charges against him, filled out a pre-printed form and orally answered 31 questions about his waiver of rights and pled guilty despite being informed that the

  • Burt v. Skrzyniarz

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth P. Johnson and David H. Johnson McCorkle, Pedigo & Johnson LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: John M. Cullum, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1824

    The trial court properly charged the jury that plaintiff had to present clear and convincing evidence to rebut the presumption that the parties had equal shares in their property as tenants in c