• In re Candelaria

    Publication Date: 2009-10-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marc E. Sirotkin, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Marcos Candelaria, Atlanta, proceeded pro se.

    Case Number: A09A1497

    OCGA §19-12-1 c is not limited to pa within the legal definition of the statute, but also may encompass biological pa

  • Yarnell v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan D. Aurelia, Buford, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rosanna M. Szabo, Solicitor-General, and Gary S. Vey, Assistant Solicitor, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1343

    The defendant slapped and kicked his wife, dragged her to ground by pulling her hair, poured dish detergent on her and threatened her with baseball bat in presence of his 4-month-ol

  • Arbegast v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank C. Winn, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, and Nedal S. Shawkat District Attorney's Office, Douglasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1530

    The more than 5-year delay between the defendant's initial arrest and the filing of his motion to dismiss was presumptively prejudicial, the delay weighed in favor of the state under the circumst

  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Kwashnak Public Defender's Office, Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Plez H. Hardin, District Attorney, Daniel P. Bibler and Lewis R. Lamb, Assistant District Attorneys, Americus, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1485

    As a lay witness, an officer could give opinion testimony regarding the defendant's behavior, so long as such testimony was based upon personal observation and fficer stated the facts upon whic

  • Cox v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Solomon A. Amusan The Amusan Law Firm PC, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry Chisolm, District Attorney, and Ian R. Heap Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1160

    Evidence that the defendant's personal papers were in the apartment where officers discovered drugs, drug paraphernalia and a shotgun an he had a key to the apartment authorized the jury to fi

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  • Trefren v. Freedom Bank of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2009-10-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip R. Green Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Samuel L. Chesnutt Strickland, Chesnutt & Lindsay LLP, Athens, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1344

    O.C.G.A. § 44-14-161 b-providing that the trial court is to require evidence to show the true market value of property sold in foreclosure and shall not confirm the sale unless it is satisfied that

  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Morgan III, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Candace K. Slezak, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1370

    The arresting officer lacked a particularized and objective basis for initially detaining the defendant, who he observed driving slowly and making intermittent stops on a road near woods where a car

  • Howard v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Erickson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1296

    The evidence authorized the jury to find that th ndant had constructive possession of a cigarette package containing narcotics, which officers found on the passenger side of the vehicle where t

  • Humphrey v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Billy M. Grantham, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, and William J. Hunter, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A0975

    The victim's testimony that she was 16 years of age when the defendant offered her money in exchange for sex authorized the trial court to conclude that the victim was under the statutory age for pa

  • Cohen v. Cohen

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight T. Feemster Duffy & Feemster LLC, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: James C. Metts III, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A0843

    The Georgia trial court had jurisdiction over the husband's child custody action under O.C.G.A. § 19-9-61 3, since the only other state, which could have had jurisdiction under O.C.G.A. § 19-9-61, d