• Manhertz v. State; Joyner v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
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    Case Number: A12A1260; A12A1558

    Evidence, including the second defendant's admission that she provided information of several current and former tenants at the apartment complex for which she worked as an assistant manager to a th

  • Thompson v. Reichert

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
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    Case Number: A12A1406

    The plaintiff's allegations that city authorities arrested him based on false pretenses at his employer's behest and then wrongly incarcerated him for several days as a result of that arrest raised

  • McAlister v. Abam-Samson

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jane Wilkes Sharon W. Ware & Associates and Peter Lampros, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Russell Davis Downey & Cleveland, Marietta, Dana Miles Miles Patterson Hansford Tallant LLC, Cumming, and Stephen Adkins, Hoschton, for appellees. Other party representation: Nikolai Makarenko Groth & Makarenko LLC, Suwanee.

    Case Number: A12A0862

    The trial court correctly applied O.C.G.A. § 5-6-48 c to dismiss the defendant's appeal of an order requiring him to pay an attorney's lien relating to his representation in an injury action for an

  • Laibe Corp. v. General Pump & Well Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan W. Cox and Benjamin J. Colson Edenfield, Cox, Bruce & Classens PC, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Judge William E. Callaway Jr. and William J. Neville Jr. Callaway, Neville & Brinson, Claxton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1002

    The trial court erred in determining that the plaintiff's claims for breach of the implied warranties of fitness and merchantability arose as a matter of law, and thus, that the parties' contract wa

  • King v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Hicks and Amanda Gaddis Law Office of Gregory Hicks, Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Cannon, Solicitor General, Canton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1151

    The evidence did not support the defendant's conviction for tampering with evidence, after she allegedly swallowed marijuana during a struggle with off

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Bearden, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory Winters, District Attorney, and Dorothy Hull, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1552

    An eyewitness identified the defendant as one of four members of a local street gang, who shot at an SUV, wounding two of its six occu

  • Owens v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edwin Wilson, Snellville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel Porter, District Attorney, and Wesley Ross District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A0881

    Trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to object to improper opinion testimony regarding the identity of the perpetrator in a surveillance video of a ro

  • Rocha v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sonya Chachere-Compton, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: James McDade, District Attorney, James Dooley, Assistant District Attorney, and Emily Richardson District Attorney's Office, Douglasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1313

    The search in which officers found a black duffle bag containing over 14 kilograms of cocaine was not the product of an impermissibly prolonged traffic

  • Wilkinson County Bd. of Educ. v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Potter and Ketsia Cumbermack Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Lonzy Edwards Edwards & Youmas LLC, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: Delece Brooks State Bd. of Workers' Compensation, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A12A0996

    The superior court erred in improperly substituting itself as the fact-finding body in a widow's suit for dependent benefits, and in applying the unexplained-death presumption without specifically d

  • Smarr v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Jeffrey, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, James Dooley and Rachel Ackley, Assistant District Attorneys, Douglasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1171

    The trial court impermissibly increased the custodial terms of the defendant's sentence after he began servi