• Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tanya Jeffords, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca Wright, District Attorney, and Madonna Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A2151

    The defendant robbed multiple victims of cash and their vehicles at gunpoint over the course of three months in 2005, culminating in a high speed police pursuit, in which the defendant crashed a sto

  • Durham v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Hildebrand Hildebrand Law Office PC, LaFayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert Franklin, District Attorney, and Kay Baker, Assistant District Attorney, LaFayette, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1893

    The defendant's consent to search her residence was not involuntary as the officer had authority to detain her while waiting for other officers to obtain a search warrant and the circumstances of th

  • Schweitzer v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-02-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clinton Teston Public Defender's Office, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, and Kelley Robertson, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A2222

    The trial court properly admitted the methamphetamine the officer found in the defendant's purse after her arrest, since police would have inevitably discovered the contraband during an inventory se

  • State v. Rogers

    Publication Date: 2013-02-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tracy Lawson, District Attorney, and Elizabeth Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dorian Murry The Murry Law Group, Stone Mountain, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1733

    The defendant's "personal items", including receipts, photographs and a camera, were within the scope of the search warrant's residual clause since they linked the defendant to the contraband polic

  • Annamalai v. Capital One Fin. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2013-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Kane, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Threadcraft Burr & Forman LLP, Birmingham, Ala., for appellees.

    Case Number: A12A1722

    The trial court properly dismissed the plaintiff's complaint for malicious arrest and intentional infliction of emotional distress, as it violated Georgia's anti-SLAPP st

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  • Edgecomb v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Michael Treadaway, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Head, D. Victor Reynolds, District Attorneys, Allen Knox, Assistant District Attorney, and John Edwards District Attorney's Office, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1823

    The trial court improperly instructed the jury on the unindicted offense of violating a family violence order as a lesser included offense of the charged crime of aggravated sta

  • Taylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Green Moore, Gray, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory Winters, District Attorney, Nancy Malcor, and Dorothy Hull, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A2366

    The trial court erred in denying the dant's motion for a directed verdict on the charge of aggravated battery on a correctional officer because the State failed to establish that the officer th

  • Georgia Dep't of Transp. v. Bae

    Publication Date: 2013-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Robert Edwards, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Nancy Gallagher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and C. Bradford Sears Sanders, Haugen & Sears, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: William White Smith, Welch, Webb & White, McDonough, for appellees.

    Case Number: A12A2493

    Because the DOT did nothing to the roads abutting the plaintiffs' business and did not terminate or obstruct their access to those roads, the plaintiffs' injury resulting from a re-routing of highwa

  • Sheppard v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Luttrell, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Head, D. Victor Reynolds, District Attorneys, Christopher Timmons, and Amelia Pray District Attorney's Office, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A2084

    The trial court erred in revoking more than two years of the defendant's probation in the absence of evidence that he committed a f

  • Worley v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon Brown & Gill, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy Floyd, James Wright, District Attorneys, and John Pipkin, Solicitor General, McDonough, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1747

    The victim's testimony that the defendant engaged in sexual acts with her and that he struck her at least one time, sending her to the hospital with a suspected broken nose, supported his conviction