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  • Goodman v. Edd's Package Store

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A00A0117

    The trial court properly denied the filing of plaintiff's pro se complaint since it did not allege any facts that would give rise to any relief in Georgia c

  • In re Tarver

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0721

    Attorney suspended for 45 days based on his admitted 45-day suspension in Alabama for conduct that would violate Standard 12 of Bar Rule 4-

  • In re Bates

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0766

    Attorney's petition to voluntarily surrender her license accepted based on her admitted failure to pursue divorce and child support actions, and her closing her practice without notifying her client

  • Hambrick v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles D. Joyner, Blackshear, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, and James D. Lamb, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2440, A99A2441

    In response to the jurors asking whether defendants were charged merely with striking correctional officers or also with threatening those officers and refusing to be handcuffed, the trial court pro

  • In the Interest of A.M.L.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amelia G. Pray, Austell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and Sanders B. Deen, Assistant Attorney General, Marietta, for appellee. Other party representation: Charles E. Clark and Clay R. Thompson, Marietta.
    Case Number: A99A2477

    Evidence that mother repeatedly abandoned her son to the care of others and suffered from a disabling psychiatric disorder supported termination of her parental r

  • Dudley v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Franklin H. Thornton, LaGrange for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick J. McDonough, District Attorney, Denise D. Fachini, Acting District Attorney, Cordele, and David N. Marple, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2269

    Since police chief resigned before he was charged with simple battery for pepper-spraying a city council member, the procedural protections of O.C.G.A. § 17-7-52 for police officers charged with com

  • Willis v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellis R. Garnett, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2316

    The trial court properly charged that, since defendant testified on his own behalf, the jury could consider his interest in the outcome of his prosecution in weighing his credib

  • DeLoach v. Rovema Corp.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cletus W. Bergen II, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert S. Glenn Jr., Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A2431

    Since defendant only sold and did not manufacture the machine that injured plaintiff, it had no duty to warn of the machine's dangers that arose or were discovered after the time of the

  • Roberts v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emmett J. Arnold, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor, and Evelyn Proctor, Assistant Solicitor, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2216

    A police officer properly stopped defendant for improper parking after observing him stop for four minutes in a no-parking area of a two-lane road without discharging any passe

  • Yarbrough v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry N. Massey, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan A. Cook, District Attorney, and Jennifer E. Greene, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2517

    Defendant's blood test results were admissible since it is unlikely that his consent resulted from officer's misreading the implied consent warning to state that a blood-alcohol level of 0.010 was il