Publication Date: 2010-06-11
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen E. Woodward Cruser & Mitchell LLP, Norcross, for Dowdell. Sun S. Choy Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, and Paul I. Hotchkiss Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Forest Park, for Clerk-Mathis. Terry E. Williams and Jason C. Waymire, Buford, for Tamer. Douglas R. Kertscher, Blakely H. Frye Hill, Kertscher & Wharton LLP, Atlanta, and Marion T. Pope Jr. Hasty Pope LLC, Canton, for Wilhelm. Other party representation: Jeffrey E. Tompkins, Thomas G. Sampson Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson & Patterson, Theodore Freeman Freeman, Mathis & Gary, Steven E. Rosenberg, Assistant County Attorney, Robert D. Ware and Coy J. Johnson Jr. County Attorney's Office, Matthew C. Welch, Atlanta, William T. Mitchell Cruser & Mitchell, Norcross,
for defendant:
Case Number: A10A0201, A10A0202, A10A0203
The post-escape fatal shooting of a bystander was not a foreseeable consequence of the fact that the appellants allegedly knew or should have known of a prisoner's plan to overpower an officer, take