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  • Pullin v. Dorsey

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy and Jeanne Canavan, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1546

    The trial court could raise defendant's bail from $100,000 to $750,000 upon being informed that he had prior felony convictions, that he might intimidate a witness to the murder and that he lost his

  • Edwards v. Georgia Dep't of Children and Youth Servs.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph W. Watkins, Lance D. Lourie Watkins, Lourie & Roll LLP, Atlanta, William P. Langdale III Langdale, Vallotton, Linahan, Threlkeld, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ziva P. Bruckner, Paul H. Dunbar III Capers, Dunbar, Sanders & Bruckner, Augusta, Patricia Guilday Shivers & Assocs., Alpharetta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Charles A. Mathis Jr. Middleton, Mathis, Adams & Tate, and Glenn E. Kushel Mills, Moraitakis, Kushel & Pearson, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S99G0900

    The decision of state employees on the type of emergency medical treatment to provide incarcerated juveniles does not fall within the discretionary function exception to the Georgia Tort Claim

  • Floyd v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek H. Jones, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin F. Smith Jr., District Attorney, Debra H. Bernes, Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Mary B. Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1775

    The defendant's admission that he stole a car and drove it to the murder scene corroborated his co-defendant's testimony that the defendant was involved in the fatal stabbing of one of the vi

  • Brooks v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Willie T. Yancey II, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1360

    Juvenile defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his rights before giving a statement to police, since his adult sister accompanied him, he was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol and h

  • Parkman v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2481

    Defendant's acquittal on firearms charge was not inconsistent with his armed ro conviction since there was evidence he assisted the co-defendant gunman during the ro

  • Cox v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Converse Bright, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Bradfield M. Shealy, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2479

    In admitting evidence that the child molestation victim claimed to be sexually active, the trial court properly applied the Rape Shield Statute to exclude evidence that her sexual partner was her bo

  • Hansford v. Burns

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Weinstock, Jeffrey P. Yashinsky, Elizabeth M. Jaffe and Mark I. Sanders Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joe M. Harris Jr. Law Department, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1830

    Defendant improperly foreclosed on plaintiff's property under O.C.G.A. § 11-9-505 since she did not tell plaintiff she intended to retain the collateral in satisfaction of plaintiff's

  • Massey v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ben B. Mills Jr. Mills & Chasteen PC, Fitzgerald, for appellant.
    for defendant: John C. Pridgen, District Attorney, Cordele, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1450

    Evidence that defendant's wife confronted him and his girlfriend at a motel three weeks before the wife's murder was admissible to show defendant's motive for killin

  • Sewell v. Hull/Storey Dev. LLC

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph W. Padgett, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . A. Rowland Dye Dye, Tucker, Everitt, Wheale & Long, Augusta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A2447

    Landlord's agreement that it would be responsible for providing security in shopping center's common areas did not create a duty for the landlord to provide security on tenants' pre

  • Caf Erotica Inc. v. Peach County

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Maddox Jr. Thomas E. Maddox Jr. PC, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan S. Cole and Charles E. Cox Jr. Cole & Cox, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1256

    Since county attorney had no power to vote on county ordinance banning alcohol sales at adult entertainment businesses, his statement that the county intended to eliminate nude dancing did not show