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  • State v. Bibbins

    Publication Date: 2004-12-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, and Thomas J. Ison Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Virgil L. Brown, Eric D. Hearn and Ronald J. Ellington Virgil L. Brown & Assocs., Zebulon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1305

    An officer's request for consent to search for drugs during the course of a brief, on-going traffic stop does not, in and of itself, violate the Fourth Amendment so as to make a valid detention "ill

  • Aon Risk Servs. Inc. of Ga. v. Commercial & Military Sys. Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-12-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore J. Sawicki, Scott P. Hilsen and Regina S. Molden Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Edward J. Tarver and Patrick C. Smith Jr. Hull, Towill, Norman, Bartlett & Salley, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0913; A04A0917

    Unauthenticated letters were inadmissible under the business records exception to the hearsay rule where the author was not available for cross-examin

  • Dixon v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fred R. Simpson, Rome, David Balser, James D. Dantzler Jr., James A. Washburn and Thomas B. Bosch McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, John F. McClellan Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Nicholas A. Lotito, Atlanta, Michael E. Paulhus, William D. Iverson, Claire G. Kunstling Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S04A0072

    The defendant was entitled to the lessor of two punishments under the rule of lenity because the two statutes-misdemeanor statutory rape and felony child molestation-are in con

  • Dixon v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fred R. Simpson, Rome, David Balser, James D. Dantzler Jr., James A. Washburn and Thomas B. Bosch McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, John F. McClellan Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Nicholas A. Lotito, Atlanta, Michael E. Paulhus, William D. Iverson, Claire G. Kunstling Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S04A0072

    The defendant was entitled to the lessor of two punishments under the rule of lenity because the two statutes-misdemeanor statutory rape and felony child molestation-are in con

  • Bradford v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-03-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Demetria Williams DeKalb County Pub. Defender's Office, and Ruth Rocker, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and David McLaughlin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2442

    The indictment charging the defendants from t money from three named mortgagees on three specified dates sufficiently charged the crimes of theft by t

  • State v. Ferrell

    Publication Date: 2003-11-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard H. Taylor, Solicitor, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert L. Crowe Lane & Crowe PC, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2431

    The arresting officer neither stopped, nor seized the defendant within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when he initially approached her parked car at a gas station and asked for her driver's lic

  • Yates v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Land Newton County Public Defender's Office, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Layla v. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1272

    Defendant's sentence requiring him to serve time in a probation detention center did not violate the constitutional prohibition on ex post facto laws, even though the sentencing statute in effect wh

  • Zwiren v. Thompson

    Publication Date: 2003-04-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P. Monyak, Anna B. Fretwell and Luca W. Andrews Love Willingham Peters Gilleland Monyak, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jim N. Peterson Jr. Peterson & Harris, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: Thomas S. Carlock Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, Atlanta. Amicus Appellee: John S. Taylor Taylor, Harp & Callier, Columbus. Neutral amicus: Antoinette D. Johnson Boone & Stone, Atlanta, and William S. Stone Boone & Stone, Blakely.
    Case Number: S02G1063

    The trial court did not reversibly err in charging the jury that a medical malpractice plaintiff had to prove her case within a reasonable degree dical certainty, rather than a reasonable degre

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel A. Summer Summer & Summer and Elizabeth B. Reisman, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason J. Deal, District Attorney, Lisa A. Jones and Jennifer C. Bagwell, Assistant District Attorneys, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0595

    Hispanics were not underrepresented on Hall County's traverse jury list, despite a presumptively prejudicial 14.5 percent disparity between the 2000 Census and the master trial jury list, since only

  • Fitz v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Andrew Fernandez, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0934

    The affidavit which set forth specific information connecting defendant to the murder victims provided a substantial basis for the magistrate to conclude that probable cause existed to issue the sea