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  • Kight v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Jones King & King & Jones PC and William R. Wansker, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, and Elizabeth A. Baker, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0424

    Parents' testimony that their 11-year-old daughters stated defendant molested them was admissible since there was no evidence that the girls were coached or threatened and the children testified and

  • Mintz v. Barlow

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Cauthorn III and Melissa J. M. Nohr Cauthorn & Assocs., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Flournoy III, Marietta, Richard A. Newton and Robert W. Kamerschen Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1801

    Plaintiff presented no evidence that defendant secretly negotiated to sell his property and corporation at a profit to a third party before he agreed to purchase plaintiff's interests in the land an

  • Boyle v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anna Blitz, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0396

    The trial court properly struck a prospective juror who repeatedly stated that she could not be impartial given her negative experience with law enforc

  • Garland v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Billy M. Grantham, Donalsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Anthony E. Paulsen III, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1653

    Defendant who knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to counsel and represented hi on the first day of trial could not claim that he ineffectively represented hi

  • Garrett v. McDowell

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A99A2079

    Tenant's challenges to the dispossessory judgment in favor of his landlord could not be considered since he did not file a transcript as part of the appellate r

  • Billups v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
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    Case Number: A00A0498, A00A0628, A00A0708

    Even if co-defendant truthfully testified that he alone committed the armed robbery and aggravated assault, evidence that the other three defendants accompanied him and talked and laughed about it a

  • Goodman v. Edd's Package Store

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A00A0117

    The trial court properly denied the filing of plaintiff's pro se complaint since it did not allege any facts that would give rise to any relief in Georgia c

  • Hambrick v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles D. Joyner, Blackshear, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, and James D. Lamb, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2440, A99A2441

    In response to the jurors asking whether defendants were charged merely with striking correctional officers or also with threatening those officers and refusing to be handcuffed, the trial court pro

  • In the Interest of A.M.L.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amelia G. Pray, Austell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and Sanders B. Deen, Assistant Attorney General, Marietta, for appellee. Other party representation: Charles E. Clark and Clay R. Thompson, Marietta.
    Case Number: A99A2477

    Evidence that mother repeatedly abandoned her son to the care of others and suffered from a disabling psychiatric disorder supported termination of her parental r

  • 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