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  • Pinkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Erickson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1636

    The pretrial photographic line-up was not impermissibly sugge

  • DeVente v. Flora

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frederick D. Burkey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Allen W. Bodiford, Stockbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1166

    Under O.C.G.A. § 19-7-1 c 1 & 2, the minor decedent's posthumously born child had the exclusive right to pursue a wrongful death claim for her father's hom

  • Pritchard v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Salvatore L. Schiappa III Frederick J. Hanna & Assoc., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Anne M. Kurtz District Attorney's Office, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1181

    The only evidence supporting the traffic stop was that the defendant's car was in front of a residence, which officers previously r

  • Haamid v. First Franklin Fin. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2009-09-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reed Edmondson Jr., Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Annette K. McBrayer Epstein, Becker & Green, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1655

    The plaintiff properly served a nonresident owner of Georgia property at his Oregon address under the long arm statute, O.C.G.A. § 9-10-91 et

  • Bazin v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Holt, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Catherine H. Helms, District Attorney, and Patricia A. Pickett District Attorney's Office, Nashville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0819

    The record belied the defendant's contention that defense counsel was deficient for advising him to waive his right to a jury

  • In the Interest of C. L. C.

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth G. Lawrence and Douglas R. Ballard Jr. Fears, Lawrence & Turner PC, Jackson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Justin B. Grubbs Grubbs Law Firm LLC, Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0798

    The juvenile court lacked jurisdiction over the present action, since the appellees' deprivation petition was a disguised custody matter, filed by non-parents, who specifically asked the juvenile c

  • Sims v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David F. Dickinson Dickinson, Mixson & Willis, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynn Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Anthony C. Lee Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Ga., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1077

    The state invoked the forfeiture hearing within the required 60 days of service of its complaint by forwarding a blank Rule Nisi to the trial judge and asking that the trial court fix a hearing on o

  • Sims v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Scott Key, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, James L. Wright III and Alicia C. Gant, Assistant District Attorneys, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0793

    Under the circumstances, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in ruling that the defendant was not coerced into pleading guilty on the basis of his plea counsel's lack of prepar

  • Underwood v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, and Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0851

    The record affirmatively established that the defendant was informed of and knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily waived his constitutional rights against compulsory self-incrimination, to trial

  • Banks-Jackson-Commerce Hosp. & Nursing Home Auth. v. Floyd

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey D. Braintwain and Anna B. Fretwell Huff, Powell & Bailey LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Vincent Cook, Robert C. Irwin III Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael LLP, Athens, and John A. Dickerson McClure, Ramsay, Dickerson & Escoe LLP, Toccoa, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A1368

    The plaintiffs' claims did not meet O.C.G.A. § 9-11-20 a's requirements for joinder as each alleged different damages arising out of different medical treatment on different