• Morris v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey H. Brickman, Acting District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0469

    The evidence, including the defendant's confession that he broke into a warehouse and stole computers out of a car, supported his convictions for burglary and entering an automobile with intent to c

  • State v. Massa

    Publication Date: 2005-07-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory R. Barton, Christopher L. Wynn, Solicitors General, and Jeffrey M. Gore Solicitor General's Office, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bobby G. New and John D. Thalhimer, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0704

    The evidence authorized the trial court to reject the officer's testimony that he could identify a very small amount of very small particles of what appeared to be plant material in a baggie that wa

  • Ransby v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy L. Lam, Monticello, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, and James L. Moss Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Jackson, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0622

    Automobile which was the underlying weapon in aggravated assault case had no apparent exculpatory value prior to its destru

  • Mann v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Goldberg, Williamson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, Jackson, and Mark S. Daniel, Assistant District Attorney, Forsyth, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0783

    Trial counsel fully informed the defendant as to the possible consequences of a guilty verdict and the effect of his three prior felonies on sente

  • Railey v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott A. Drake, Grayson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and John A. Steakley, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0108

    The trial court did not err in admitting certified copies of the defendant's prior convictions at his resentencing following the state's failure to produce admissible evidence of his recidivist stat

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Thalhimer, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Victoria S. Aronow and Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0652

    The prior consistent statements of the co-defendant and a witness were admissible since the defendant placed their veracity at

  • In the Interest of T. J.

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey A. Bashuk, Atlanta, and Willie G. Davis Jr., East Point, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and Robert E. Hall, Alpharetta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0115

    Deprivation finding was supported by evidence that the 3-month-old infant had multiple old and new fractures and subdural hemo

  • Dean v. Hunt

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Althea L. Buafo and Bernadette C. Crucilla Buafo & Assocs., Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Craig M. Childs and William H. Noland Groover & Childs, Macon, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0352

    Plaintiff's personal injury action against appellee was time-barred, since he failed to serve appellee before the running of the statute of limit

  • Ford v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert S. McPhail, Butler, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, and Robert H. Sandwich Jr. District Attorney's Office, Columbus, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0316

    The defendant failed to meet his burden of showing that the state had a more favorable, undisclosed deal with one of his co-defendants in exchange for the co-defendant's test

  • Hart v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-05-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin L. Melton III, Hartwell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, Elberton, and Richard K. Bridgeman, Assistant District Attorney, Toccoa, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A1997

    Trial counsels' decision not to raise the defendant's mental health in connection with his obstruction charge was based on trial strategy, since they intended to argue that defendant kicked the offi