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  • Martin v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Erickson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James McDade, District Attorney, and Jeffrey Gore, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A1380

    The trial court properly admitted similar transaction evidence showing that the defendant was involved in a prior robbery, since the prior robbery was similar enough to the facts of the current case

  • Clowers v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Holly Hughes Hughes & Manning LLP, and F. Renee Regard Rockwell, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Ballard, District Attorney, Robert Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, and Adam Younker, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A1625

    The evidence supported the defendant's convictions for selling marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and obstructing law enforcement officers arising from his participation in

  • Sparrow v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell Walker, Perry, for appellant.
    for defendant: George Hartwig, District Attorney, and Marie Banks District Attorney's Office, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A1583

    The defendant's admission to breaking into his neighbor's house and taking a computer monitor supported his burglary convi

  • Bickel v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Wright, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert Franklin, District Attorney, and Elizabeth Evans, Assistant District Attorney, LaFayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A1333

    The evidence supported a finding that the defendant used and possessed marijuana and used alcohol in violation of the terms of his probation, and the fact that he may have chosen to self-medicate hi

  • Miller v. City Views at Rosa Burney Park GP LLC

    Publication Date: 2013-08-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hezekiah Sistrunk, Shean Williams, M. Gino Brogdon Cochran, Cherry, Givens, Smith & Sistrunk PC, Atlanta, Robert Bozeman, and Mawuli Davis The Davis Bozeman Law Firm PC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Standard, John Hall, Duane Cochenour Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Chad Jacobs, Douglas Burrell, and Bruce Taylor Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Hugh Ruppersburg The Simon Law Firm, Lynn Roberson Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP, and David Root Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A12A2331

    The trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant apartment complex and defendant management company on the plaintiff's vicarious liability claim arising from an incident in which

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  • Thompson v. LaFarge Bldg. Materials Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-08-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hylton Dupree and Blake Carl Dupree & Kimbrough LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Schweber Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen, and John Williams Dietrick, Evans, Scholz & Williams, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0740

    LaFarge Bldg. Materials v. Pratt, 307 Ga. App. 767 2011, adversely decided the issue of whether the individual defendant's personal guaranty satisfied the Statute of Frauds in this suit on an accoun

  • Boone v. Udoto

    Publication Date: 2013-08-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Rice, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Grant Smith Dennis, Corry, Porter & Smith LLP, Atlanta, Kermit Dorough Divine & Dorough, Albany, and Ashleigh Smith, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A0591

    A nightclub patron's attack on the plaintiff was not reasonably foreseeable to the defendant club owners, since the defendants had no prior knowledge of the patron or his propensities for violence a

  • Beville v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cynthia Harrison, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James McDade, District Attorney, and James Dooley, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0796

    The trial court p y admitted the drug evidence officers seized from the defendant's vehicle, since the inventory search of the vehicle was p

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Head, Atlanta, and Ashleigh Merchant The Merchant Law Firm PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leslie Abernathy, Solicitor General, Donna Gopaul, and Amy Radley Solicitor General's Office, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0397

    The trial court properly admitted the defendant's post-arrest statement that he made in the back of the officer's cruiser, since the statement was within the res gestae of the arrest and was admiss

  • Roberts v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Walker, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Mallard, District Attorney, and Brian Deal, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0500

    The defendant failed to prove that his trial counsel was ineffective for agreeing to the admission into evidence of the victim's written statement, since trial counsel had impeached the witness with