• Board of Regents of the Univ. Sys. of Georgia v. Brooks

    Publication Date: 2013-09-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Kathleen Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Loretta Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Claude Sitton, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: S. Wesley Woolf, Savannah, for appellees.

    Case Number: A13A1328

    The defendant university system was not required to make any further inquiry or investigation into the propriety of the information presented on the face of a payment bond that was in proper form bu

  • Birdette v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-09-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Barrow, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, and Juliet Aldridge District Attorney's Office, Gainesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1430

    Despite his mental limitations, the defendant personally, knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily waived his right to a jury

  • Kinsala v. Hair

    Publication Date: 2013-08-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent Lauria, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Patton Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A13A0635

    The state court failed to make express findings of fact or conclusions of law as to the statutory basis for its award of attorneys' fees to the defen

  • Luangkhot v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-08-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A11A1688; A11A2146; A11A2281

    A superior court's authority to issue wiretap warrants is limited to that court's territorial jurisdi

  • Brooks v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-08-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lorie Williams-Smith Georgia Legal Services, Adel, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Jessica Clark, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1239

    The victim's testimony alone was sufficient to sustain the defendant's armed robbery convi

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  • Blitch v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-08-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Mallard, District Attorney, and Joseph Black, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1088

    Officers had probable cause to conduct a warrantless search of the defendant's vehicle based in part on information an informant pro

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-08-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Johnny Vines, Lyons, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel Altman, District Attorney, Swainsboro, and Charles Howard, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Lyons, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A0956

    Absent a transcript of the hearing on the defendant's motion or the order denying his motion to dismiss his indictment for cocaine trafficking and marijuana possession, the Court of Appeals could no

  • Walker v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-08-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan Raines, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Margaret Heap, District Attorney, Sarah Moorhead, and Jerome Rothschild, Assistant District Attorneys, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1308

    The evidence, including the defendant's own free and voluntary admission that he supplied another individual with 500-600 pills, which tested positive for TFMPP, supported his convictions for three

  • Pullins v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-08-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Trieshmann Public Defender's Office, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Howard, District Attorney, and Christopher Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A0863

    A witness's showup identification of the defendant was not impermissibly suggestive because it was reasonably and fairly conducted approximately 15 minutes after the crime at the crime

  • The Kroger Co. Inc. v. Briggs

    Publication Date: 2013-08-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Moffett and Jennifer Guerra Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherard Dixon and Michael Mills Dixon Mills LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A0671

    The evidence supported the jury's finding that the defendant store's actions were the proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries arising from his erroneous arrest for attempting to pass counterfeit