• MacKay v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-06-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A08A0640

    Exigent circumstances authorized officers to enter the defendant's home in pursuit of a vicious dog, one in a pack of highly aggressive dogs that had been terrorizing a neighbor and killing her

  • Harris Ventures Inc. v. Mallory and Evans Inc.

    Publication Date: 2008-06-20
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    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A08A0709

    The fatally deficient Notice of Commencement for the project in question relieved a subcontractor of its obligation to provide a Notice to Contactor pursuant to OCGA § 44-14-361.5

  • Gant v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-06-20
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    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A08A0127; A08A0191

    Evidence that the first defendant stood nearby, holding a rifle, then fled with the assailants authorized the jury to find that the first defendant a party to the crimes of aggravated assault and tw

  • Perryman v. Djajadi

    Publication Date: 2008-06-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A08A0200

    Absent a transcript, the trial court's rulings were presumably correct in the plaintiff's breach of contract and fraud action, which resulted in a money judgment against the defen

  • Lewis v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-06-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A08A0015

    The trial court erred in refusing to charge the jury on justification and the related principle of ' "no duty to retreat," ' since some evidence supported the ch

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  • Sweeting v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-06-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A08A0621

    The plea petition and transcript affirmatively showed that the defendant entered his plea, knowingly, intelligently and volunt

  • Land v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-06-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A08A0388

    The trial court properly considered all three of the defendant's prior felony convictions for purposes of recidivist sente

  • Lancaster v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-05-16
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    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A08A0667

    The evidence, including the 8-year-old victim's testimony, supported the defendant's convic

  • Kramer v. Yokely

    Publication Date: 2008-05-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A08A0103

    O.C.G.A. § 24-1-4 provides that a trial court shall take judicial notice of a judicial opinion from a foreign jurisdiction if ' "published by authority . . . without the introduction

  • In the Interest of U. G.

    Publication Date: 2008-05-16
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    Case Number: A08A0848

    The issue of whether the paternal grandmother ultimately adopts the child in question was irrelevant to a determination of whether termination of the mother's rights was in the child's best