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  • Rosas v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Jeffrey W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, and Raymond C. Mayer, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1367

    An officer's request for consent to search for drugs during the course of a brief, on-going traffic stop does not, in and of itself, violate the Fourth Amendment so as to make a valid detention "ill

  • Hunnicutt v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Alexander III, Marietta, for Hunnicutt. Richard O. Allen, Atlantic Beach, Fla., for Thomas. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amy H. McChesney and Charles P. Boring, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A05A1981; A05A1982

    The trial court did not depart from a position of impartiality when it interrupted defense counsel to protect witnesses from being dealt with unf

  • Giddens v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin W. Drummond, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1559

    Any error in the trial court's charge on aggravated assault was harmless, since the defendant admitted that his actions would constituted aggravated assault, unless the jury found that he acted in s

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Drew Findling and Cris E. Schneider The Findling Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jewel C. Scott, District Attorney, and Billy J. Dixon, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1491

    The defendant confessed that he was the masked gunman who accosted two employees, forced them into a business office and robbed a movie th

  • Garrison v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Jeffrey W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1618

    Two accomplices identified the defendant as one of four gunmen who participated in a home invasion and officers found the defendant's fingerprints on the getawa

  • Barnett v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel J. Sammons, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason J. Deal, District Attorney, and Norris S. Lewis Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1531

    The evidence showed that the defendant distributed cocaine within 1,000 feet of a public housing pr

  • Maynard v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2005-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles J. Vrono, Forest Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randall L. Keen, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1312

    The Court of Appeals vacated the trial court's adoption decree, because it failed to set forth the specific findings of fact and conclusions of law required by O.C.G.A. § § 19-8-10 b 1 and 19-8

  • Pope v. Board of Comm'rs of Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy J. Sweeney, James P. Robertson Jr., Melana Kopman and Gretchen M. Holt Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: K. Prabhaker Reddy Reddy & Silvis LLC, Richard R. Gignilliat Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, and James J. Park U. S. Court of Appeals, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A1237

    The appellants' own letter to the county board of commissioners provided some evidence supporting their removal from their positions on the county's board of tax asse

  • Payne v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew W. Payne, Hardwick, proceeded pro se. Dennis C. Sanders, District Attorney, and William P. Doupe', Assistant District Attorney, Thomson, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A05A1137

    The defendant could not complain about the state's amended accusation for the first time on a

  • Rosas v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Jeffrey W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, and Raymond C. Mayer, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1367

    An officer's request for consent to search for drugs during the course of a brief, on-going traffic stop does not, in and of itself, violate the Fourth Amendment so as to make a valid detention "ill