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  • White v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-12-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry R. Pruden, Loganville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Monroe, and Layla V. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1662

    The defendant's statement, in which he admitted purchasing crack cocaine on the day that his acquaintance attempted a robbery by sudden snatching, was admissible as part of the res g

  • Hinkle v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-12-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan H. Remsen, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and Suhirjahaan S. Morehead District Attorney's Office, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1111

    The defendant did not show that his trial counsel was deficient for failing to call four alibi or corroborating witnesses, in the absence of any evidence as to who the potential witnesses were or wh

  • Valle v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer S. Hanson Law Office of Bruce S. Harvey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Matthew T. McNally and Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0906

    The defendant lacked standing to challenge the search of a vehicle in which he was a passenger because he had no reasonable expectation of privacy in a garbage bag he placed in the

  • Robinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony J. Morgese, Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Susan K. Treadaway, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2426

    The trial court did not err in refusing to accept the jury's first verdict of guilty with reasonable doubt as an acquittal and in sending the jury out for further delibera

  • Pierce v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg Fulton County Conflict Defender Inc., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Marc A. Mallon, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2097

    Evidence of the victim's prior arrest for marijuana solicitation was irrelevant and inadmissible, since she did not open the door to her character when she test

  • Hawkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sammy J. Hawkins, Jasper, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry E. Morgan, Solicitor General, and Jeffrey A. Johnson Solicitor General's Office, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1232

    Campus policemen of the state university system have the power to make arrests for offenses committed upon any public or private property within 500 yards of any property under the jurisdiction of t

  • Price v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg Fulton County Conflict Defender Inc., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0975

    Defendant's void 5-year sentence on a misdemeanor cruelty to children conviction was reversed as it was not authorized b

  • In the Interest of M. R.

    Publication Date: 2006-10-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul M. Ledbetter, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and John J. Martin, Conyers, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1059

    Clear and convincing evidence supported the juvenile court's determination that the children's deprivation would continue, despite the father's recent efforts to comply with his reunification case

  • Hutchens v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis M. Turchiarelli, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, Allen D. Morris and Wallace W. Rogers Jr., Assistant District Attorneys, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1451

    The jury was authorized to find that the victim's lack of resistance was induced by fear, since the victim testified that she was afraid of the defendant as the result of his prior molestation o

  • Newton v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher P. Twyman Cox, Byington, Cowin, Niedrach, Smith & Twyman, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell and Erik J. Pirozzi, District Attorneys, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1187

    Case remanded for the trial court to prepare written findings of fact as to whether restitution is appropriate under O.C.G.A. § 17-14-1 and to hold a hearing concerning the