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  • Fugarino v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott R. King Slater, King & Gross, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and George F. Hutchinson III, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1781

    The defendant committed computer trespass when he deleted large portions of a computer pr that he was working on for his employer without authority to delete any part of that pr

  • Sinyard v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas E. White, Cochran, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Vaughn, District Attorney, Russell P. Spivey and James E. Turk, Assistant District Attorneys, Eastman, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1663

    The trial court should have granted the defendant's motion for a mistrial when a prospective juror commented during voir dire that the defendant had cheated her friend since the comment tainted the

  • In the Interest of G.P.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carlton K. Nelson III, Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ralph M. Walke, District Attorney, and Judson Green IV, Assistant District Attorney, Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0288

    Circumstantial evidence that the juvenile tried to pawn an identical compact disc player shortly after the burglary was sufficient to support his delinquency adjudication since that evidence was inc

  • Sanchez v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A00A0850

    The state was not motivated by vindictiveness when it reindicted the defendant for possessing 400 grams of cocaine after his mistrial on possession of 28 grams because it did not know the actual qua

  • Ligon v. Bartis

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A00A0844

    Plaintiff could not avoid enforcement of settlement by claiming th attorney was not authorized to settle, since attorneys have apparent authority to settle and plaintiff never told defendant t

  • Ellison v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A99A2495

    Even if the police violated a statute entitling the defendant to a preliminary hearing within 48 hours of his warrantless arrest, the defendant's conviction for cocaine possession was not in

  • Swanson v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lecora Bowen Lecora Bowen & Assocs., College Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Melynee C. Leftridge Sharon W. Ware & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2419

    The uninsured motorist carrier could assert its defense that the tortfeasor was never served, even though it failed to include that defense in the proposed pretrial

  • State v. Warren

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael G. Kam and Brian D. Lewis Kam & Ebersbach PC, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2085

    The trial court applied the wrong standard of proof when it ruled that the officer lacked "probable cause" to stop the defe

  • Parker v. Kennon

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L.B. Kent, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John W. Denney Denney, Pease, Allison & Kirk, and Ashley C.C. McKenna, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2077

    The defendants did not own the funds in the certificates of deposit which they held jointly with their incapacitated mother because their mother provided the funds for th

  • Bowen v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie G. Patterson and Yasma Patterson, LaGrange, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, and Julianne W. Holliday, Assistant District Attorney, LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2116

    The state failed to prove the scientific reliability of the drug testing procedure which formed the basis of the defendant's prob revoc