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  • 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

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Augustus T. Curtis, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harry N. Gordon, District Attorney, and Gerald W. Brown, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1091

    Defendant was entitled to a new sentencing hearing because he did not have the opportunity to present evidence on the validity of his prior guilty pleas which the state used in aggravation of his sen

  • Powell v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jon V. Forehand Allen & Forehand, Moultrie, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, and Andrew W. Pope, Assistant District Attorney, Moultrie, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1754

    The officers' search for safety purposes of the bedroom in which they a d the defendant did not exceed the scope of a search incident to a

  • Solomon v. Norwest Mortgage Corp.

    Publication Date: 2000-09-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
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    Case Number: A00A1555

    The mortgage corporation that purchased the defendant's home at a foreclosure sale was entitled to a dispossessory judgment as a matter of law because the defendant was a tenant at suffe

  • Boney v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-09-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A00A1382

    Defendant who had filed a direct a should have raised his claim for ineffective assistance of appellate counsel in a petition for writ of habeas corpus, instead of an out-of-time a