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  • Dennis v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wendell Adams Public Defender's Office, Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Currie, District Attorney, Waycross, and John Rumker, Assistant District Attorney, Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A2396

    The defendant failed to prove his ineffective assistance of counsel claim after he was convicted of aggravated assault for striking his work supervisor with a too

  • Glaze v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Silverbach The Silverbach Group LLC, Kennesaw, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Atlanta, and Andrea Newton District Attorney's Office, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1270

    The Court of Appeals affirmed defendant's convictions for rape, kidnapping, armed robbery, theft by taking, and three counts of possession of a gun during the commission of a

  • Brooks v. RES-GA ALBC LLC

    Publication Date: 2012-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Clifton The Clifton Law Firm LLC, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Andrew Gebhardt and John Webb Smith, Welch & Brittain, Stockbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0082

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his admissions, since the motion was untimely, the defendant did not show that the admissions were incredib

  • Coney v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-06-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tony Axam Axam Law, Atlanta, and Danielle Roberts, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise Fachini, District Attorney, Barbara Becraft and Henry Jones, Assistant District Attorneys, Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0667

    The defendant lost the right to a suppression hearing because his attorney filed the motion to suppress on the first day of trial in violation of a standing order to file such motions within 10 days

  • Hicks v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-05-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon Brown & Gill, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, and Deborah Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0998

    The scheme perpetrated by the defendant involved an investment contract or security, as th ims parted with their money in anticipation of investment gains, a common enterprise existed because t

  • Jordan v. Bennett

    Publication Date: 2011-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Yakov D. Shteyman Kilpatrick Stockton LLP and Edward A. Miller, Atlanta, for appellant. Thomas H. Hinson II Westmoreland, Patterson & Moseley, Macon, for appellees.
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    Case Number: A11A1828

    Since the defendant's home balcony was a static condition, not a hidden peril, pitfall or mantrap, the defendant was liable to the plaintiff only for willful or wanton injuries and no evidence show

  • Veasley v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia G. Abbott Abbott Law Firm, and Gina A. Smalley, Marietta, for appellant. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, and John R. Edwards District Attorney's Office, Marietta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A11A1826

    The victims' television was in the truck the defendant was driving minutes after the burglary, along with other items related to the

  • Cruickshank v. Fremont Investment & Loan

    Publication Date: 2010-12-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth Cruickshank, Powder Springs, proceeded pro se. Frank R. Olson McCurdy & Candler LLC, Decatur, and Kelly L. Atkinson Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A10A2178

    The record showed that the first defendant served the plaintiff with its response within the 30-day period as O.C.G.A. § 1-3-1 d 3 req

  • Ford v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-11-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas Pagano, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry Chisolm, District Attorney, and Timothy W. Ruffini, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1305

    The accusation charging the defendant with three counts of animal cruelty properly identified the animals by species or breed, distinguished between similarly described animals on the basis of livin

  • Boykins-White v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-09-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley M. Hannan Smith, Hannan & Parker PC, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Bradfield M. Shealy, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0939

    Trial counsel an ethical obligation not to assist his client in presenting perjured testimony, so counsel was not deficient for failing to present an alibi where the defendant admit at he commi