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  • Frazier v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-07-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bernard S. Brody, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and John S. Helton, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0418

    Defense counsel was deficient for failing to object to the admissibility of the defendant's custodial statement, which officers obtained in violation of his Miranda rights, after the defendant repea

  • Kim v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-07-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sharon L. Hopkins, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and William C. Akins, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1466

    The prosecutor did not solicit the accomplice's testimony, which identified the defendant as a gang m

  • Hicks v. Heard

    Publication Date: 2009-05-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven K. Leibel, Dahlonega, for appellant.
    for defendant: Render C. Freeman, Michael J. Blakely Jr. Anderson, Tate & Carr PC, Lawrenceville, and Jeffrey P. Yashinsky Shur, McDuffie & Morgan, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A0874

    A part-time as-needed employee's prior speeding citation and involvement in a prior minor accident was insufficient to establish her incompetence or a pattern of reckless dr

  • Airport Auth. of the City of St. Marys Ga. v. City of St. Marys

    Publication Date: 2009-05-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Stein, St. Marys, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amanda B. Blackledge City of St. Marys, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0786

    The appellant's ai least with the city obligated the appellant to heed the city's directives, including the city's resolution to pursue relocation of the ai

  • Christian v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-05-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin R. Makin Public Defender's Office, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, and C. Rebecca Smith District Attorney's Office, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0613

    The defendant had a probationary driver's license when he collided with another vehicle in a parking

  • State v. Austin

    Publication Date: 2009-05-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0461

    An aggravated assault count, which tracked O.C.G.A. § 16-5-21 a 2, contained the elements of aggravated assault and described the alleged criminal act-striking a patient in the head with a metal ins

  • Georgia Dept. of Human Resources v. Gamble

    Publication Date: 2009-05-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Mark J. Cicero, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Willie J. Gamble, Atlanta, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: A09A0315

    The trial court lacked authority to modify the terms of a child support order during a civil contempt procee

  • Howard v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-04-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jon V. Forehand Allen & Forehand, Moultrie, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, and Brian A. McDaniel, Assistant District Attorney, Moultrie, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0419

    The state submitted certified copies of three valid prior felony convic

  • Stegall v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-04-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason W. Swindle Drummond & Swindle and Maryellen Simmons, Assistant Chief Public Defender, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0913

    The mere fact that the victim took the stand satisfied O.C.G.A. § 24-3-16's availability requirement, even though she refused to answers any ques

  • Etowah Environmental Group v. Advanced Disposal Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-04-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Forestner and H. Wayne Phears Phears & Moldovan, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael J. Bowers, T. Joshua Archer, Scott E. Hitch and Malissa A. Kaufold-Wiggins Balch & Bingham LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A08A1660

    The appellants' tort claims arising out of the valuation of certain shares in an LLC, which the parties formed to operate solid waste disposal facilities, after it merged into appellees' holding com