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  • Ngo v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-03-23
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott Semrau (Attorney at Law), Phu Ngo (Calhoun State Prison), Morgan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel Porter (District Attorney Gwinnett Justice & Administrative Center), Lawrenceville; Anthony Volkodav (Assistant District Attorney), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1846

    Trial Court Erred in Neither Providing Counsel to Defendant Who Sought to Withdraw Plea Nor Inquiring Whether He Had Waived Counsel

  • Faison et al. v. Faison

    Publication Date: 2018-03-23
    Practice Area: Real Estate | Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Meeks (Attorney at Law), Leesburg, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Hadden (Turkheimer & Hadden, LLC), Atlanta; John Cotton (Cotton Law Firm, P.C.), Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1610

    Trial Court Erred In Failing to Determine Heirs Property Before Ordering Mediation in Partition Dispute

  • Austin Regional Home Care, Inc. et al. v. Careminders Home Care, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-03-23
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Dispute Resolution | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca Strickland, Michael Schroder (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLC), Atlanta; Mark VanderBroek, George Ray (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Schleicher (Attorney at Law), Alpharetta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1859

    Court of Appeal Lacked Jurisdiction to Hear Non-Final Order Granting Arbitration

  • Outz v. State

    Publication Date: 2018-03-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Clark, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: David White (District Attorney), Hartwell; Michael Coveney (District Attorney's Office of the Northern Judicial Circuit), Danielsville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1952

    Jury Could Infer From Circumstantial Evidence That Family ViolenceVictim Was Not Defendant's Sibling

  • Delevan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-03-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Clark, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Langley (District Attorney), Blairsville; Sidney Landreau (Enotah Judicial Circuit District Attorney), Blairsville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1998

    The Court vacated the trial court's denial of defendant's motion for an out-of-time appeal following his convictions for DUI a related offenses and remanded to the trial court for appointment of a conflict-free counsel for defendant and a new hearing on the motion for an out-of-time appeal in order to determine who was at fault for failing to timely file the notice of appeal.

  • Cherokee Main Street, LLC v. Ragan

    Publication Date: 2018-03-22
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon Day, Jerald Hanks (Hanks Brookes, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Akin, S. Tate (Akin & Tate, LLC), Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1819

    Accident Victim Who Was Aware of Risk at Unmarked Crossing And Knowingly Stepped in Front of Approaching Car Had Superior Knowledge of Hazard

  • Suntrust Bank v. Todd Cowan, As Tax Commissioner For Douglas County et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-03-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Real Estate | Tax
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Crochet (Kutak Rock LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth Bernard, Stephanie Regas (Sherrod & Bernard), Douglasville; John Doe, Jane Doe, Douglasville; Regina Jordan, Los Angeles; John Ayoub (Ayoub & Mansour, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1850

    Lienholder Who Received Excess Funds From Tax Sale Was Subject to Subsequent Appellate Court Rulings Modifying Rights of Redeeming Creditors

  • Cherry v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-03-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rafe Banks (Banks, Stubbs & McFarland, LLP), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Finch (Solicitor General of Forsyth County), Cumming; Jeffrey Huong (Forsyth County Solicitor General Office), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A2085

    The trial court properly admitted evidence of defendant's refusal to submit to breath testing and evidence of his horizontal gaze nystagmus test in his trial for DUI.

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-03-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William McQueen (McQueen Law Office LC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Chafin (Assistant District Attorney Western Judicial Circuit), Athens; Kenneth Mauldin (District Attorney), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A2064

    The evidence supported defendant's conviction for, inter alia, one count of child molestation, in which he was alleged to have masturbated in front of his 13-year-old stepson, despite the boy's trial testimony that he closed his eyes when defendant pulled out his penis, because it was not necessary for the victim to actually see defendant masturbate and there was evidence from which the jury could infer that defendant masturbated in the boys presence.

  • Austin v. Nagareddy et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-03-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Self
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Mitchell, Zack Greenamyre (Mitchell & Shapiro LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Bailey, Julye Johns, Emaly Arndt (Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0126

    The Court vacated the trial court's order granting defendants' motion to stay a civil action against them until the conclusion of a trial in a criminal case in which one defendant had been indicted for parallel allegations and remanded for further proceedings, because the trial court's exercise of discretion was based upon an erroneous view of the law.