• Ahn v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen J. Wasley Larson & Wasley LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory R. Barton, Solicitor, and Evelyn Proctor, Assistant Solicitor General, Douglasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A1158

    The defendant owned and managed a spa business where she encouraged, supervised and received money for her employees' prostitution activ

  • Chapman v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald P. Word, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, LaGrange, and Kevin T. McMurray, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A0934

    Two deputies, who responded to a call about a possible loud party at a motel, did not need reasonable suspicion to approach a parked vehicle and inquire whether any the occupant's, the defendant and

  • Bowden v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey S. Purvis Tanyard Oaks, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny A. Penn, District Attorney, and James A. Dunn, Assistant District Attorney, Cumming, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A1077

    The trial court d abuse its discretion in denying the defendant's motion for a mistrial after the informant testified that he knew the defendant from prior deals with him, since the statement

  • Daly v. Mueller

    Publication Date: 2006-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam R. Gaslowitz, Craig M. Frankel and Paul D. Menair Gaslowitz Frankel LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lawrence S. Sorgen, Hiawassee, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A1013

    Plaintiff's complaint seeking to set aside her release of the claims she asserted against her stepmother individually and as executor of her father's estate failed for her failure to tender back th

  • Pollio v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Erickson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, and Brian K. Fortner District Attorney's Office, Douglasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A0737

    The trial court properly excluded evidence of the victim's prior false accusation of sexual misconduct, since no reasonable probability of falsity existed under the circumstances and the statement i

  • Frazier v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Howard J. Weintraub Law Offices of Howard J. Weintraub PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A0707

    Trial counsel was not deficient for failing to pursue a meritless request for a hearing outside the jury's presence on the reliability of the victim's out-of-court statements, which were initially s

  • Walker v. Sears Roebuck & Co.

    Publication Date: 2006-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William S. Barber and James V. Chafin Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer PC, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew T. Strickland Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A0681

    The plaintiff failed to show that the defendant had know of any hazard other than rain water of which the plaintiff had equal know

  • Minor v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Tracy, Assistant Pub. Defender, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, and Gregory W. Edwards District Attorney's Office, Albany, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A0786

    The victim testified that she saw someone attempting to gain access to her storage shed by striking the door handle with an object and the officer who responded less than a minute later saw the defe

  • Crosby v. East West Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul Oliver and James L. Stine Wimberly, Lawson, Steckel, Nelson, Schneider, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eric T. Johnson, Woodstock, and Donna C. Sloan Blackburn, Walther & Sloan, Roswell, for appellees.

    Case Number: A06A0824

    Some evidence supported the trial court's determination that fendant owed $16,019.70 in unreimbursed commissions for advances the plaintiffs made to fendant while the plaintiffs employed

  • Fletcher v. Hatcher

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin M. Kendall, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Samuel A. Murray Jr. Beck, Owen & Murray, Griffin, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A0479

    The plaintiffs submitted to venue in Butts county by filing their personal injury suit