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  • McCrae v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A07A2099

    Trial counsel was not deficient for failing to raise a hearsay objection to testimony that people had complained to police department about defendant's drug activity at his hotel room, since th

  • White v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A07A2427

    The defendant cut a correctional officer's face with a razor blade or other sharp object, requiring more than 150 stitches and cosmetic surgery to repair the d

  • Lightsey v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A07A2386

    The defendant was not entitled to a charge on entrapment where the evidence showed that he called out to the confidential informant to approach him and he handed her a packet of cocaine after she as

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A07A2226

    The victim and an eyewitness testified that the defendant entered the victim's bedroom in a home in which the victim and he had previously lived together, pointed his handgun at the victim and s

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A07A2313

    A narcotics team agent saw the defendant drop an aspirin bottle containing cocaine during a warrant search of a residence in Chatham county and the agent found a prescription bottle containing cocai

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  • Cooks v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A07A1633

    Evidence of prior difficulties between a defendant and the victim are not subject to USCR 31's notice require

  • Morgan v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A07A2445

    The arresting officer's observation of malnourished and mistreated animals from defendant's driveway and the road, combined with a neighbor's allegations of animal mistreatment and preva

  • Fincher v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-01-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A07A1681

    The trial court did not err in refusing to give the defendant's requested charges on accident and criminal negligence, since the trial court's charge as a whole covered the same legal princi

  • Davis v. Walker

    Publication Date: 2007-12-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert S. Stubbs III Banks, Stubbs & Neville, Cumming, Jennifer D. Odom and Luke A. Lantta Powell Goldstein LLP, Atlanta, for Davis. David L. Cannon Jr., Solicitor General, Patricia A. King Thompson & Cline PC and John A. Meier II, Canton, for Walker.
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    Case Number: A07A0907, A07A0908

    The beneficiaries of a revocable trust showed that the trustee failed to exercise reasonable care in the management of the trust a

  • Land v. Ricks

    Publication Date: 2007-12-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Guy H. Ware Casey, Gilson, Leibel PC, Atlanta, for Land. Richard C. Foster Hicks, Casey & Foster PC, Marietta, George R. Moody and Kyle D. Probst Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, Atlanta, for Ricks and others. Harry W. Bassler Crim & Bassler, Atlanta, for Densmore. Other party representation: Gary M. Cooper Cooper & Makarenko, Duluth.
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    Case Number: A07A1147; A07A1148

    The trial court did not reversibly err in instructing the jury that the plaintiff's counsel and expert witness violated the rule of sequestration, since the trial court's recharge clearly and thorou