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  • 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

  • Council v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-04-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason R. hasty Public Defender's Office, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles R. Sheppard and Rebecca A. Wright, Assistant District Attorneys, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0290

    Any error in the trial court's denial of the defendant's request to have his leg shackles removed during trial was har

  • Wells v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-04-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert Adams Jr. The Adams Law Group PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jewel C. Scott, District Attorney, and Dawn M. Belisle-Skinner, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2043

    The trial court impermissibly communicated with the jury when it gave instructions concerning the deliberating jury's reported deadlocked status outside of the defendant's pre

  • Nash v. Compass Bank

    Publication Date: 2009-04-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard J. Storrs, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Sara L. Doyle and Allen A. Hendrick Holland & Knight LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2374

    The appellee showed that the partially completed office park at issue sold for its true value of $2.6 during a foreclosure sale, after the appellant defaulted on a $3.5M

  • Haugabook v. Crisler

    Publication Date: 2009-04-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Jerome Strickland and Christopher B. Jarrard Jones, Cork & Miller LLP, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Edward Allen Jr., Jeffrey W. DeLoach Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, and F. Gregory Melton Davis & Melton PC, Dalton, for appellees.
    Case Number: A08A0688

    The doctrine of money had and received fits the facts of this case in which the plaintiff's son-in-law borrowed $1M from the plaintiff to cover fictitious settlement proceeds t the defendants from a

  • Killings v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-04-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John P. Rutkowski, Atlanta, and Romin V. Alavi Plichta, Alavi & Assocs., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jewel C. Scott, District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2289

    The victim identified the defendant as one of two men, who robbed him of $50 to $60 at gun

  • Carter v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fred A. Lane Jr., District Attorney, and Ferdinand M. Viscuse, Assistant District Attorney, Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2322

    The trial court did not err in refusing to admit a properly authenticated motion to suppress, which contained a statement that the defendant did not reside with his girlfriend in a home containing a