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  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason W. Swindle Drummond & Swindle, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, and Marc A. Watkins, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2118

    The transcript belied defendant's claims that his guilty plea to three counts of distribution of controlled substances, two counts of use of communication facility in the sale of cocaine and one cou

  • Campbell v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher G. Paul, Public Defender, and William T. Elsey, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Allen R. Knox, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2188

    The defendant stabbed the victim during an altercation and the victim later died of his w

  • Celestin v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Taylor, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2365

    The defendant was alone in a motel room with paraphernalia commonly used to prepare crack cocaine, officers found 69 grams of powder cocaine in a jacket in the room and $524 in cash in a suitcase co

  • Ameris Bancorp v. Ackerman

    Publication Date: 2009-03-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James H. Moore III and Allen H. Olson Moore, Clarke, Duvall & Rodgers PC, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin T. Butler, Cairo, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A1588

    The exculpatory language in the guarantee executed along with the lease and note in question did not bar the plaintiff's claims, since the guaranty applied to the city of Cairo's obligations to the

  • Taylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert Adams Jr. The Adams Group PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jewel C. Scott, District Attorney, and John M. Turner Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2073

    The defendant participated in a gun battle at a local park, where bullets struck a woman in her wrist and killed her 4-year-old gra

  • Daniel v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P. McFarland Jr. McFarland & Assocs. PC, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny A. Penn, District Attorney, and Sandra A. Partridge, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2351

    Evidence that the defendant touched his 11-year-old step-granddaughter on her private parts and made her touch his private parts more than ten times supported his aggravated child ation, child

  • Alvista Healthcare Ctr. Inc. v. Miller

    Publication Date: 2009-03-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason E. Bring Arnall, Golden & Gregory, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Lance D. Lourie and Stephen R. Chance Watkins, Lourie & Roll LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A1899

    The nursing care facility was required to release the decedent's medical records to his surviving s

  • West v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Adam, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, Gainesville, John G. Wilbanks Jr. and Jennifer D. Hart, Assistant District Attorneys, Dawsonville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2271

    The defendant refused to leave the roadway in front of a private home, after an officer repeatedly told him to

  • In the Interest of R. S.

    Publication Date: 2009-02-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frederick S. Jones, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, Sandra G. Rivers and Mary E. Evans-Battle, Assistant District Attorneys, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2401; A08A2402

    The victim identified the first juvenile at trial at the one, who acted as a lookout, while the other juvenile put a gun to the victim's chest, took cash from the gas station's cash drawer and opene

  • Houston v. Phoebe Putney Mem. Hosp. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-02-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura M. Shamp Brown & Shamp, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Carl R. Langley Langley & Lee, Albany, for appellees.
    Case Number: A08A1844

    The trial court erred in dismissing the medical malpractice plaintiff's complaint for failure to file a legally sufficient expert affi