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  • Wilkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James B. McGee III McGee & McGee, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Waycross, and Allen R. Knox, Assistant District Attorney, Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1360

    The trial court did not err in failing to remove three jurors who discussed an unrelated robbery before being swo

  • Brewster v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Waller, Jr., Assistant Pub. Defender, Perry, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly P. Burke, District Attorney, and Katherine K. Lumsden, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0368

    Defendant's conviction for making a terroristic threat did not merge as a matter of fact with his conviction for attempted rape since separate, distinct facts supported each

  • Brown v. Garrett

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard E. Harris, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Arthur B. Edge IV Wood, Odom & Edge PA, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0822

    The court's recharge on the measure of damages was so blatantly erroneous that it raised the question of whether the plaintiff was deprived of a fair

  • Burrell v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles A. Mullinax and Stephen W. Adkins Jr. Alan Mullinax Esq., Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Jennifer Kolman, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0386

    The state failed to show that the officer's initial encounter with defendant was l

  • Nalley v. Baldwin

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wayne Grant, Kimberly W. Rabren Wayne Grant PC, and W. Scott Schulten Schulten, Ward & Turner, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert G. Tanner Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, John W. Campbell II Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Paul E. Weathington and Kara A. Hicks Allen, Weathington & Reeves, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0603

    A consent judgment entered against the sole resident defendant did not amount to a discharge from liability that would divest the trial court of personal jurisdiction over the non-resident defen

  • Wright v. Pine Hills Country Club Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl V. Walters, Thomas E. Pujadas Walters, Davis, Meeks & Pujadas, Ocilla, and Robert E. Sherrell Jay, Sherrell, Smith & Braddy PC, Fitzgerald, for Wright. Mary M. Katz Chambless, Higdon & Carson, Macon, for Pine Hills Country Club Inc. William P. Langdale III Langdale & Vallotton LLP, Valdosta, Craig N. Cowart Miller, Cowart, Cates & Howe LLP, Macon, for Newspaper Holdings Inc. E. B. Wilkin Jr., Perry & Walters, Albany, for State Farm.
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    Case Number: A03A0178; A03A0179

    The plaintiff presented no expert testimony contradicting the defendants' evidence that a newspaper reporter was not noticeably intoxicated when the defendants served her al

  • Argot v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee W. Fitzpatrick, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Allen D. Morris, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0080

    Nothing inherent in an Alford plea constrains the sentencing court from considering any permissible factor in imposing sen

  • Long v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John A. Beall IV, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor, and Linda T. Day, Assistant Solicitor General, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0221

    The trial court's charge accurately and fully informed the jury on obstruction and a defendant's right to resist a lawful arrest when excessive and unlawful force is

  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maryellen Simmons 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: A03A0107

    The defendant had constructive possession of cocaine found in the car in which he was a passenger because he brought it to the car, told a co-defendant to pull it from under the front seat and plac

  • Mattox v. Condo

    Publication Date: 2003-06-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James T. Budd and Brian W. Sprinkle Mabry & McClelland, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Peter A. Law, Davis K. Loftin Peter A. Law PC, and Arthur L. Myers Jr. Allen & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0734

    Gwinnett County was the proper venue for an action seeking to enforce a settlement agreement arising out of underlying traffic accident where the first defendant resided in Gwinnett County and the s