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  • State v. Goodwin

    Publication Date: 2000-09-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John G. Conger, District Attorney, and Melvin E. Hyde Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank K. Martin and John T. Martin The Martin Firm, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1271

    The state failed to show that defendant left Georgia or concealed herself so that she could not be arrested on arson charges before the statute of limitation ex

  • Grimes v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-09-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cindi L.T. Yeager, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Andrew J. Saliba and Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1247

    Defendant's use of counterfeit bills to purchase merchandise which he later returned for a cash refund supported his forgery convic

  • Sheets v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Meng H. Lim Murphy, Murphy & Garner, Bremen, for appellant.
    for defendant: James R. Osborne, District Attorney, and Elizabeth L. Larson, Assistant District Attorney, Buchanan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1313

    Because the defendant used eight of 10 strikes against female prospective jurors without striking similarly-situated male prospective jurors, the trial court properly concluded that defendant's reas

  • Pickering Corp. v. Goodwin

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryant H. Bower Jr. and Rebecca R. Crowley Dillard & Bower, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth E. Futch Jr. and Teresa G. Bowen, Blackshear, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0100

    Plaintiff failed to show that the store, which had less than 90 seconds to clean up the water spill before plaintiff slipped, was negl

  • Lee v. American Cent. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-06-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert S. Slocumb, Macon, Wilton D. Harrington and John P. Harrington Smith & Harrington, Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert M. Finlayson II and Edward C. Bresee Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A0728

    If a mortgagor is not an insured under his business's fire insurance policy, then the insurer has no subrogation rights against the mortgagor with regard to the money it paid to the mort

  • Mitchell v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Morgan Steven L. Morgan PC, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, and Charles K. Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2060

    Even though the trial court refrained from qualifying the state's witness as a finger print expert, the detective's years of experience in identifying fingerprints qualified him to give an expert op

  • Bullard v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, and Nancy B. Bordeaux, Assistant Attorney General, Tucker, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1695

    Undisputed evidence showed that the defendant actively participated in the creation of false documents after the GBI began investigating her husband for Medicaid

  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roderick H. Martin, 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: A99A2165

    Evidence that defendant was involved in an accident with the stolen and was charged with DUI and several traffic violations was admissible since it was related to his arrest for stealing the

  • Woodward v. Gray

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Michael Agnew Agnew, Schlam & Bennett PC, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clifton C. Fay, Assistant City Attorney, Columbus, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A2450

    Although police officer had no probable cause to arrest plaintiff for disobeying her order to move away while she arrested plaintiff's brother, the officer had official immunity since there was no e

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica R. Towne and David E. Clark Clark & Towne PC, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor General, and Julie A. Kert, Assistant City Solicitor, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2304

    Although defendant's alcosensor breath test was inadmissible to prove that he drove with an illegal blood alcohol level, it was admissible to impeach his testimony that he drank only three beers and