• Chamberlain v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-11-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wallace T. Hatcher The Chestney-Hawkins Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn R. Keyes, Solicitor General, Alison W. Toller, DeKalb Solicitor, Thomas E. Csider, Assistant Solicitor, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A1622

    The defendant was entitled to an independent blood test after she provided a state-administered breath sample that produced a printed alcohol concentration ana

  • Knight v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-11-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel N. Shiver, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harry N. Gordon, District Attorney, and Henry R. Thompson, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0966

    There was sufficient evidence of defendant's intent to deprive the victims of their property at the time he received it from

  • Object Techs. Inc. v. Marlabs Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-11-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Udai V. Singh, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: James W. McKenzie Jr., Duluth, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A1456

    The trial court did not have long-arm jurisdiction over the out-of-state defendant because the parties transacted business over the phone or the Internet and defendant did not transact business in Ge

  • Camp v. Eichelkraut

    Publication Date: 2000-11-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A00A1746, A00A1747, A00A1748

    Defendant did not breach a confidentiality and non-disparagement agreement with the plaintiff by cooperating with police and fraud investig

  • Hudson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-11-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Bradley, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Staci L. Guest, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A1371

    The Court of Appeals reiterated that compliance with the appellate rules is not opt

  • Coombs v. Koblasz

    Publication Date: 2000-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore H. Lackland Lackland & Heyward, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, and Kathryn L. Allen, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A1361

    Plaintiff's service of process on the person who collected defendant's mail and watered his plants while he was out of the country was defe

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn Wilson, Barnesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, Jackson, and Paul E. Hemmann, Assistant District Attorney, Barnesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A1802

    Defendant's statement that he would burn down the victim's house, coupled with his presence on the crime scene, provided sufficient evidence for the jury to find him guilty of

  • Turner v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald P. Word 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: A00A0914

    The pipe bombs, hand grenades and other items seized from defendant's bedroom supported his conviction for manufacturing an explosive d

  • Honeycutt v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Murl E. Geary, Richmond Hill, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Durden Jr., District Attorney, and James S. Archer, Assistant District Attorney, Hinesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A1737

    Trial court did not abuse its discretion in giving an Allen charge when the jury was not deadl

  • Stephens v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0974, A00A0975

    Trial court impermissibly commented on the evidence by charging that the jury was bound to disbelieve incredible, impossible or inherently improbable testimony, since the defendants' story that the