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  • Graham v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emmett J. Arnold, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Erman J. Tanjuatco, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2301

    Defendant was not entitled to an equal access charge regarding drugs found in his co-defendant's truck since the court did not charge that he was presumed to possess the drugs merely because he was

  • Ward v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Willie C. Weaver Weaver Law Offices, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, and Richard E. Thomas, Assistant District Attorney, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2270

    A videotape of the perpetrator and testimony regarding the stolen merchandise corroborated the defendant's confession that he entered the grocery store with a shirt over his head and stole beer and

  • Mills v. Norfolk S. Ry. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A99A2324, A99A2325

    Since federal regulations require the same warnings from all railroad crossing automatic warning devices, evidence that some of railroad's devices previously gave delayed warnings was admissible in

  • Sexton v. Clayton County Tax Digest

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Sexton Lee Sexton & Assocs. PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald M. Comer II, Jonesboro, Brian R. Dempsey, Jack R. Hancock Hancock & Echols, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Laurel E. Henderson, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0379

    Trial court set an excessive millage rate for temporary collection of ad valorem taxes pending approval of county's tax digest, since that rate would allow the county to collect funds exceeding its b

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelley A. Dial, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1665

    Defendant who did not inform the trial court why he needed an independent expert to test his and the victim's blood for alcohol and drugs was not entitled to funds or to a continuance for that te

  • Leonard v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelley A. Dial, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Mickey R. Thacker, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0057

    Testimony from undercover officers who observed confidential informant purchase co from defendant's accomplice corroborated informant's testimony that defendant supplied that co

  • Kight v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Jones King & King & Jones PC and William R. Wansker, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, and Elizabeth A. Baker, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0424

    Parents' testimony that their 11-year-old daughters stated defendant molested them was admissible since there was no evidence that the girls were coached or threatened and the children testified and

  • Garland v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Billy M. Grantham, Donalsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Anthony E. Paulsen III, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1653

    Defendant who knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to counsel and represented hi on the first day of trial could not claim that he ineffectively represented hi

  • Mills v. Norfolk S. Ry. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A99A2324, A99A2325

    Since federal regulations require the same warnings from all railroad crossing automatic warning devices, evidence that some of railroad's devices previously gave delayed warnings was admissible in

  • Reese v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hurl R. Taylor Jr., Ellenwood, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, and Stephen L. Corso, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1897

    Evidence of the victim's disciplinary history in her employment as a police officer could not be used to impeach her since it did not involve a conviction of a crime involving moral turp