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  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley C. House, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1625

    The defendant was not harmed by the state's failure to disclose the pretrial statements of three juveniles since the officer who interviewed the juveniles testified that they initially denied any pa

  • Cummings v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James P. Theodocion, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1736

    Although the officers detained defendant while they executed a search warrant on a motel they did not initiate a custodial interrogation by asking him whether he owned a jacket found in the

  • King v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Jordan, Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Cecelia Harris, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0796

    Since defendant failed to show that his chosen counsel would be available to try his case at the next court term, he could not claim that his actual trial counsel was ineffective regarding the denia

  • Family Partners Worldwide Inc. v. SunTrust Bank, Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael W. McElroy and Charles J. Cole Harmon, Owen, Saunders & Sweeney PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William H. Major III Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1696

    Bank's failure to follow its own procedure and require a corporate resolution to open the plaintiff's a did not make the bank liable for the funds that the plaintiff's CEO embezzled from that

  • Walton v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucy J. Bell, Thomson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis C. Sanders, District Attorney, and Durwood R. Davis, Assistant District Attorney, Thomson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0719

    The jury could reject the defendant's alibi because an eyewitness identified the defendant's car as the car the perpetrator ran to after robbing a convenience store and forcing its clerk into a c

  • Starling v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chris Jenson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, and James L. Moss Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Jackson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0592

    The mere fact that the arresting officer worked for the county in which the state brought DUI charges against defendant did not show that the officer arrested defendant within his jurisdiction since

  • Kuehn v. Selton & Assocs.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Kelley Kitchens Kelley Gaines PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William M. Droze and Daniel S. Reinhardt Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1904, A99A1905

    Defendant could not enforce a restriction in its former broker's employment contract which prohibited broker from competing with defendant indefin

  • Department of Transp. v. Arnold

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, R.O. Lerer, Assistant Attorney General, Donna W. Howell James S.S. Howell Law Offices, Robert W. Diggs Weiner, Yancey & Dempsey and Mark Weinstein, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Luke F. Gore Gore, Lee & Curry, Austell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0646

    Owner of condemned property could recover for his post-taking business losses because he showed that he had to relocate his chiropractic clinic after the DOT condemned most of his parkin

  • Almond v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Donnelly University of Ga. Sch. of Law, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harry N. Gordon, District Attorney, and John A. Pursley, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1631

    Defendant's inconsistent responses to the officer's questions about her improper stop in the roadway, combined with reports that the man leaning into her car sold drugs at that location, gave the of

  • Barnes v. Greater Ga. Life Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald J. Jordan and Cedric B. Davis Adams & Jordan, Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael R. Hurst Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Ga. Inc., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0782

    Plaintiff was not entitled to accidental death benefits under her son's life insurance since policy excluded losses caused by the commission of a crime and the son was driving under the influence wh