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  • 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'

  • 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

  • Ambrose v. Sheppard

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Franklin Freeman Jr., Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Walter J. Lane Jr. Lane & Jarriel, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: W. W. Larsen Jr. Larson & Larson, Dublin, and W. Franklin Freeman Jr., Forsyth.
    Case Number: A99A1803

    Evidence that plaintiffs bought defendant's land based on his promise to monitor timber cutting on that land raised a jury question on plaintiffs' promissory estoppel claim based on damage to the p

  • Knight v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ann C. Stahl, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Mickey R. Thacker, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2257

    Informant's testimony that he purchased crack cocaine from defendant was corroborated by evidence that the informant had no drugs before the buy, that police saw him go to defendant's yard and ask f