• Stanley v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John A. Rumker, Douglas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Waycross, and Allen R. Knox, Assistant District Attorney, Douglas, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0320

    The defendant shot the victim after several confrontations in which the victim attacke

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald P. Word and Jason W. Swindle Word & Simmons PC, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0136

    The trial court did not err in admitting defendant's statement to police that he would identify a major drug player if they let him walk away since there was no evidence that the officers coerced or

  • Stuart v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney L. Mathis, Calhoun, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Calhoun, and Sharon M. Fox, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0259

    There was no evidence that the trial court acted vindictively in sentencing the defendant more severely than it would have had the defendant plead guilty to all ch

  • Leventhal v. Cumberland Dev. LLC

    Publication Date: 2004-05-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herman Clark Clark & Clark, Ellijay, and Lee M. Bagel, Marietta, for Leventhal and others. Glen E. Stinson, Dallas, for Cumberland Dev. LLC. Other party representation: Hansell L. Smith Smith, Eubanks, Smith & Darden, and Mike D. Harrison, Marietta.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A04A0699; A04A0700

    There was no evidence that the defendants agreed to a consent order drafted by the plaintiff's att

  • Ferguson v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert R. McLendon IV, Blakely, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0060

    Defendant suffocated her newborn by placing her in plastic

  • Millen v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wystan B. Getz, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard R. Read, District Attorney, Conyers, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0389

    To support a conviction for possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, the state was not required to prove that defendant's possession of the firearm in and of itself was unl

  • Schultz v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby L. Cook, Summerville, and Todd M. Johnson, Cohutta, 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: A04A0030

    The defendant could not deny performing the acts, which formed the basis of the aggravated child molestation charge, and claim that he committed such acts by mi

  • In re: Laurens County April-June 2001 and July-September 2001

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John E. Morrison, Vidalia, for appellant.
    for defendant: James L. Wiggins, Eastman, Francis M. Lewis Lewis & King LLC, and Joseph L. Chambers, Assistant District Attorney, Dublin, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A0753

    The proposed grand jury presentment criticizing the district attorney's office constituted an act that was beyond the grand jury's statutory auth

  • Alwin v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maureen O. Floyd Fleming, Jackson, Ingram & Floyd PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A1133

    The victims testified at the new trial hearing that no member of the defendant's jury was present in the courtroom during his co-defendant's guilty

  • Collier v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-04-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A2159

    The defendant's consent to blood testing based on the police officer's intentional misrepresentation of his implied consent rights was invalid and trial counsel was deficient for failing to seek sup