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  • Hammontree v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-03-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, Atlantic Beach, Fla., for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, and Kurt J. Martin, Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2367

    Defendant's actions on night in question, when he repeatedly made inappropriate sexual comments to his daughter's 15-year-old overnight guest and exposed his erect penis to her, were admissible as

  • Anaya-Plasencia v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-03-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Yurachek The Law Offices of Mark A. Yurachek & Assoc., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Nancy J. Dupree, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1919

    Mexican national's statement to police was voluntarily given, even though he was not advised of his right to consulate notification under the Vienna Conve

  • Putzel Elec. Contractors Inc. v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2006-12-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Napier Murphy and William R. Shelton Jr. Murphy & Sibley PC, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Henry S. Barnett, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Lee Southwell Board of Workers' Compensation, and Mark J. Goodman Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A1039

    The employee's workers' compensation claim for work-related asbestosis was timely filed pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 34-9-281, since he filed it within one year of first learning of the causal connection

  • Layfield v. Department of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2006-12-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alfred N. Corriere, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy J. Buckley III, Kelly R. Webb Finley & Buckley PC, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Reagan W. Dean, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A04A1786

    An expert's opinion regarding the proximate cause of an accident was not speculative and the expert's credibility was a matter for the jury to d

  • Maynard v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-12-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher A. Townley, Rossville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, and Christopher A. Arnt, Assistant District Attorney, LaFayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1229

    The trial court harmfully erred in allowing the state to cross-examine the defendant about his refusal to discuss the allegations of aggravated child molestation st him, in violation of the rul

  • Chatham Orthopaedic Surgery Ctr. LLC v. White

    Publication Date: 2006-12-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brent J. Savage Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Benjamin H. Brewton Tucker, Everitt, Long, Brewton & Lanier, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1381

    The trial court erred in ruling that the plaintiffs, a group of orthopedic surgeons, whom defendant represented, did not properly allege in their complaint and in their pretrial order that defendant

  • Anthony v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wystan B. Getz Oakhurst Law Group of Getz LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1694

    The trial court did not violate O.C.G.A. § 17-8-57 in characterizing the defendant's testimony as evasive and instructing him to give direct responses on cross-examin

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Nigel R. Lush and Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1978

    The defendant's plea in bar was properly denied because his trial counsel's decision to request a mistrial was not the result of any improper conduct by the

  • Brigman v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Koontz Law Office of Dennis C. O'Brien, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, and Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1620

    Evidence of prior incidents involving the defendant's domestic partners was admissible in the defendant's trial for crimes against his

  • Buchanan v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-12-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, and Timothy M. Marlow, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1267

    The defendant pulled the phone from the wall as his father was attempting to call 911, pushed his father down and kicked him, breaking five ribs and fracturing his father's collar