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  • Julian v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Merchant The Merchant Law Firm, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel Porter, District Attorney, and Ayanna Sterling-Jones, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A2027

    The trial court should have granted the defendant's motion for discharge and acquittal of seven counts of theft by taking, based on the State's inability to secure the testimony of a prior difficult

  • Riley v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-02-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa Smith Public Defender's Office, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, and Billy Dixon, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A2563

    The evidence supported the defendant's convictions for armed robbery, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, since multiple eyewitnesses identified him as

  • Geico Gen. Ins. Co. v. Hospital Auth. of Clarke Cnty.

    Publication Date: 2013-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason W. Hammer Carlock Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kristopher Alderman, Douglas Gibson, and Miyong Park The Gibson Firm LLC, Woodstock, for appellees. Other party representation: Thomas Brennan, James Taylor Fain, Major, Wiley & Brennan PC, Atlanta, Steven Kunz, and Justyna Kunz, Lawrenceville.
    Case Number: A12A2351

    The trial court erred in denying summary judgment to an insurance company defendant in a to enforce three hospital liens, as O.C.G.A. § 44-14-474 a's one-year statute of limitation barred

  • Taylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-02-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter Britt Chandler, Britt, Jay, Beck & Zwald LLC, Buford, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel Porter, District Attorney, and Wesley Ross District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0522

    Pursuant to recent Supreme Court of Georgia precedent, the defendant could not directly appeal the denial of his pre- plea in bar based on an alleged violation of his right to a speedy

  • Estrada v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-02-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen Anderson, Winder, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Smith, District Attorney, Jefferson, and Samuel Skelton, Assistant District Attorney, Homer, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A2475

    The 6-year-old victim's hearsay stat were admissible under O.C.G.A. § 24-3-16, since the people to whom the victim made the outcries were available to testify and the circumstances of the sta

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  • Robertson v. Ridge Envtl. LLC

    Publication Date: 2013-01-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Joiner The Joiner Law Firm PC, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John Brown, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A2277; A12A2278; A12A2279

    The defendant perfected its liens against the property owner petitioners when it filed counterclaims within the statutory period to recover the debts at issue against the contractor in a separate a

  • McMeans v. Department of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2012-12-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Albert Wallace, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Atlanta, and Warren Power Power Jaugstetter & Futch PC, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1376

    There is no prerequisite that a trial court find a specific and separate plea for business loss damages in a condemnee's notice of appeal before causing an issue to be made and tried by a jury regar

  • Alizota v. Stanfield

    Publication Date: 2012-12-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Justin Grubbs Grubbs Law Firm LLC, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Ott, Fayetteville, for appellee. Other party representation: Lloyd Walker and Anne Myers, Peachtree City.
    Case Number: A12A0981

    The superior court erred in exercising jurisdiction over a couple's adoption petition that sought to terminate the putative father's parental rights on the basis that the father deprived the

  • Evans v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-12-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Adams Public Defender's Office, Thomaston, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Ballard, District Attorney, Thomaston, Robert Smith, Assistant District Attorney, and David Younker District Attorney's Office, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1305

    The jury was authorized to reject a hypothesis that the 60.65 grams of marijuana found at the scene with multiple small individual baggies was for the defendant's persona

  • Parker v. All Am. Quality Foods Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-12-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cuong Truong and Andrew Coffman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Alday, Russell Waldon Harper, Waldon & Craig, Atlanta, and Stephen Morris Meadows & Macie, Stockbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1072

    Questions of fact remained as to the defendant store's negligence, since the water upon which the plaintiff slipped and fell had accumulated on the floor in an interior space where the plaintiff had