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  • Callahan v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald C. Evans Jr., Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Mickey R. Thacker, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0584

    Defense counsel was not deficient for failing to file a futile motion to suppress the evidence found, when officers stopped the co-defendant's vehicle, since the defendant lacked a possessory intere

  • Barrington Hills Condominium Ass'n Inc. v. Lewis

    Publication Date: 2006-02-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek W. Johanson Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC and Ryan M. Pott Taylor, Busch, Slipakoff & Duma LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Abraham A. Sharony, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2047

    The trial court erred in relying solely on expert opinion testimony to establish that the association breached a duty to repair subsurface soil problems affecting Lewis' condominium

  • Brown v. Columbus Doctors Hosp. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-02-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Taylor and Jefferson C. Callier Taylor, Harp, Callier & Morgan, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John K. Train IV Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2292

    The trial court reversibly erred by failing to strike a prospective juror for cause, who stated that he would have a hard time being impartial, since his company had an on-going relationship with th

  • McWhorter v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher A. Townley, Rossville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, LaFayette, and Michael J. Moeller, Assistant District Attorney, Summerville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1252

    The trial court did not err in sentencing the defendant to 30 years on her ction for conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, since the Georgia Controlled Substances Act provides that a perso

  • Moreland v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1301

    The defendant shot the victim in the chest after he and his accomplice approached the victim's car to ste

  • Hoffman v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeremy E. Citron, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry E. Morgan, Solicitor General, and Latonia P. Hines, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1419

    The defendant smelled of alcohol, he had bloodshot eyes, he admitted drinking a beer and he refused to submit to field sobriety

  • Leake v. Murphy

    Publication Date: 2005-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Don C. Keenan, Allan L. Galbraith and Sarah A. Pawl The Keenan Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . E. Victoria Sweeney, Stephen D. Pereira Thompson & Sweeney PC, Lawrenceville, and Gerald Davidson Jr. Davidson & Tucker LLP, Duluth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0645

    O.C.G.A. § 20-2-1185 places an absolute ministerial duty on county school superintendents and boards of education to prepare a school safety plan to help curb the growing incidence of violence in sc

  • King v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Morgan III, Abbeville, and James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, and Cheri L. Nichols, Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1917

    The state failed to prove that the robbery by sudden snatching occurred in Ben Hill c

  • Holloway v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1027

    Evidence that the victim's skull was fractured and that it took more than thirty staples to close his head wounds supported defendant's conviction for aggravated ba

  • Parker v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas and Caprice R. Jenerson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Ruth A. Pawlak, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0986

    The defendant shot the victim twice in the head at close range and started a fire in the bedroom of her home where her body was lo