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  • In the Interest of D.S.

    Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jan A. Wheeler, Assistant Public Defender, Decatur, and Jimmonique R. Rodgers Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Stephen J. Pearsall, Assistant District Attorney-Juvenile Division, and Elisabeth G. MacNamara, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2158

    The evidence sufficiently supported the juvenile court's finding of kidnapping, including the asportation element, because minor forced the victim into an isolated yard behind an abandoned

  • Semega v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shamsideen O. Laguda, Atlanta, and Francis O. Kadiri, Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Deborah D. Wellborn District Attorney's Office, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2255

    The trial court erred in replacing a holdout juror, who did not agree with other jurors on the defendant's

  • Miller v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wayne L. Burnaine, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Karen M. Harris, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2400

    The trial court did not err in refusing to sever the defendant's attempted armed robbery offenses, because the charges constituted a series of connected

  • In the Interest of JLK

    Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melinda M. Katz, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Laura A. Wood, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2308

    The evidence was insufficient to adjudicate defendant delinquent on the charge of simple assault, because the only evidence presented was he

  • Dawson v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2271

    Defendant's ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel claim was barred because he failed to raise the issue after being granted an out of time appeal and new counsel was appo

  • In the Interest of T.C.

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Wiggins, Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Jennifer E. Hildebrand, LaFayette, Steven M. Ellis, Chickamauga, and Justin G. Woodward, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2243

    An order extending DFACS' temporary custody of the children, which the juvenile court entered three days after DFACS filed the termination petition, did not preclude a subsequent finding that clear

  • McIntyre v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Drew W. Powell, Public Defender, Clarkesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian M. Rickman and Richard K. Bridgeman, District Attorneys, Toccoa, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2295

    The evidence was sufficient to support the defendant's child molestation convi

  • Grant v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent D. Sowerby, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clara E. Bucci Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia, Pooler, and Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Woodbine, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2040

    The Court vacated the order denying the defendant's motion to set aside the denial of his application for the return of $60K in seized cash and remanded the case for required findings under Cambron

  • In the Interest of A.R.

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward J. Peterson Public Defender's Office, Swainsboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kathryn A. Fox, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Thomas J. O'Donnell, Special Assistant Attorney General, Sandersville, and Christopher N. Dube Mahaffey Dube, Wrens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0125

    The mother lived in subsidized housing with her boyfriend, did not maintain stable employment, had limited intellectual capacity, was incapable of parenting her children without assistance and paid onl

  • State v. Biddle

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, and Leopold F. Joh, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: George A. Waters, Richmond Hill, and Robert R. McLendon IV, Blakely, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2283

    The language of the indictment charged the defendant with first-degree vehicular homicide and was sufficient to inform the defendant that he must defend against that