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  • Legan v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A08A0112

    The 5-month-old victim had multiple bone fractures in various stages of healing, and the evidence showed that her injures were not consistent with accidental trauma or CPR, as the defendant cl

  • In the Interest of B. M.

    Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A08A0165

    The juvenile in question hit one victim, while another juvenile severely beat and robbed a second victim and a third juvenile held a gun to the third victim's head, forced him into a car and thr

  • Wightman v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A08A0027

    The evidence supported a finding that the defendant forcibly raped both victims-a 13-year-old and her 15-year-old s

  • Gaines v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A08A0144

    The defendant was not entitled to a charge on mistake of fact, since she based her defense on justification and self-defense and the trial court properly charged the jury on those legal princ

  • Long v. Hogan

    Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A08A0290

    O.C.G.A. § 13-1-11 limits a creditor's right to recover attorneys' fees to 15 percent or less on the principal and interest

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  • Boyd v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A08A0250

    The defendant threatened and slapped the 16-year-old victim, while he repeated attempted to penetrate her and the victim's mother testified that her residence, where the crimes took place, is i

  • Whitmore v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-01-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A08A0315

    Some evidence supported a finding that the traffic stop in question involved a first-tier encounter, which required no reasonable suspicion of criminal act

  • Bowe v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-11-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg Fulton County Conflict Defender Inc., Atlanta, for Bowe. Robert H. Citronberg, Atlanta, for Baker. Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A07A2448; A07A2449

    The trial court's denial of the first defendant's motion to sever his trial from that of his co-defendant constituted reversible error, since the first defendant had an antagonistic defense and coul

  • Dodds v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-11-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Mullis, Valdosta, for appellant. Richard W. Shelton, Solicitor, Valdosta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A07A2102

    The arresting officer had probable cause to believe that the defendant had violated the underaged DUI per se statute after he stopped the underaged defendant for operating a vehicle with an obscured

  • Robinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-11-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Courtney Robinson, Reidsville, proceeded pro se. Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and William C. Akins, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A07A2183

    The pro se defendant raised his ineffective assistance of counsel claim at the earliest practicable moment in his appeal, since the trial court cut him off from making this argument when it mistaken