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  • Rittenhouse v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
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    Case Number: S99A1718, S99A1721

    Defendant's booking photograph was admissible since he had changed his appearance dramatically since the murder and witnesses had difficulty identifyin

  • Brandon v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1824

    The trial court should not have charged that the jury did not have to believe incredible, impossible or inherently improbable testimony, since defendant's claimed alibi was not impossible as running

  • Bearden v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney L. Mathis, Calhoun, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Cartersville, and Rebecca B. Paris, Assistant District Attorney, Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0189, A00A0190

    The trial court properly denied a continuance to defendant who waited until the Saturday before trial to try to hire an att

  • Blair v. Blair

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert G. Nardone, Avondale Estates, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shelby A. Outlaw The Outlaw Firm, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1459

    Parties' divorce decree required that defendant pay premiums to maintain his ex-wife's health insurance coverage at a level as close as possible to what she had under defendant's policy during their

  • Leonard v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelley A. Dial, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Mickey R. Thacker, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0057

    Testimony from undercover officers who observed confidential informant purchase co from defendant's accomplice corroborated informant's testimony that defendant supplied that co

  • O'Hara v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Mason, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, and Alonza Whitaker, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1791

    Trial judge's friendly conversation with a police officer during his examination by the state was not a comment on that officer's credib

  • In the Interest of S.B.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vicki E. Carter, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tony D. Coy, Athens, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso and Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Russell C. Gabriel University of Georgia Legal Aid Clinic, Athens, and John C. Shelton, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A0174

    Evidence that mother did not prevent her one-month-old daughter from being sexually molested and shaken to death supported the finding that her 16-month-old child was dep

  • Parker v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edwin A. Smith, Sandersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, and Samuel H. Altman, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0319

    The trial court properly refused to sever defendant's trial for two armed robberies since they occurred within a week of each other and both involved defendant holding a knife to a woman's throat an

  • Peachtree Plastics Inc. v. Verhine

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William R. Carlisle, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: John B. Degonia Jr., Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1826

    Although corporate defendant's answer was defective because the company president who filed it was not an att it cured the defect by submitting an amended answer filed by its att

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell D. Durham, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Debra H. Bernes and Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0069

    Defendant failed to show his attorney was ineffective merely because the attorney had an unfriendly relationship with the state's confidential informant stemming from his previous representation of