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  • Sanchez v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A00A0850

    The state was not motivated by vindictiveness when it reindicted the defendant for possessing 400 grams of cocaine after his mistrial on possession of 28 grams because it did not know the actual qua

  • Ligon v. Bartis

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A00A0844

    Plaintiff could not avoid enforcement of settlement by claiming th attorney was not authorized to settle, since attorneys have apparent authority to settle and plaintiff never told defendant t

  • Ellison v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A99A2495

    Even if the police violated a statute entitling the defendant to a preliminary hearing within 48 hours of his warrantless arrest, the defendant's conviction for cocaine possession was not in

  • Swanson v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lecora Bowen Lecora Bowen & Assocs., College Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Melynee C. Leftridge Sharon W. Ware & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2419

    The uninsured motorist carrier could assert its defense that the tortfeasor was never served, even though it failed to include that defense in the proposed pretrial

  • State v. Warren

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael G. Kam and Brian D. Lewis Kam & Ebersbach PC, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2085

    The trial court applied the wrong standard of proof when it ruled that the officer lacked "probable cause" to stop the defe

  • Parker v. Kennon

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L.B. Kent, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John W. Denney Denney, Pease, Allison & Kirk, and Ashley C.C. McKenna, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2077

    The defendants did not own the funds in the certificates of deposit which they held jointly with their incapacitated mother because their mother provided the funds for th

  • Bowen v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie G. Patterson and Yasma Patterson, LaGrange, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, and Julianne W. Holliday, Assistant District Attorney, LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2116

    The state failed to prove the scientific reliability of the drug testing procedure which formed the basis of the defendant's prob revoc

  • Brinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chris E. Ambrose and Douglas K. Silvis Silvis & Ambrose PC, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Mark E. Mitchell, Assistant District Attorney, Thomasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2156

    The was no evidence that the victim's mother, stepfather and a ch tness conspired to prejudice defendant when they testified that he had been in prison, was on probation and had kidnapped the c

  • In the Interest of C.G.B.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard R. Schlueter, Conyers, 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, and Albert A. Myers III Mumford, Myers & Mooney, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Jeremy A. Moulton Moulton & Massey, Conyers.
    Case Number: A99A2231

    The trial court presumably disregarded inadmissible hearsay evidence from a DFACS caseworker's notes and the court-appointed special advocate's reports when it determined that termination of the mot

  • Riley v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven E. Phillips, Public Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2291

    The defendant was entitled to an in camera inspection of the state's entire file to determine whether it contained evidence that one of the state's witnesses was arrested as a suspect in the same ag