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  • In the Interest of H. S.

    Publication Date: 2007-06-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie E. Snow Whitehurst, Blackburn, Warren & Kelley, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth D. Steele Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Andrew W. Clark, Thomasville, and Bonnie R. Spears, Moultrie, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0810

    Clear and convincing evidence did not show that the 9-year-old child's father was

  • Rosenfeld v. Rosenfeld

    Publication Date: 2007-06-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William G. Leonard Taylor, Busch, Slipakoff & Duma, and David J. Hungeling, Atlanta, for Mary Rosenfeld. Michael Weinstock, John P. Wilson III, John B. Levy Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for William Rosenfeld. Other party representation: Walter H. Bush Jr. Schiff Hardin LLP, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A07A0959; A07A1133

    The doctrine of unclean hands does not apply to a suit for damages for breach of a fiduciary relatio

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Z. Moore-Brown, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, and Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0549

    The trial court did not err in admitting a videotape into evidence, since the state satisfied the necessity requirement of O.C.G.A. § 24

  • In the Interest of K. D.

    Publication Date: 2007-06-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade N. Krueger Georgia Legal Servs., Valdosta, Vicky O. Kimbrell, Lisa J. Krisher and Phyllis J. Holmen Georgia Legal Servs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Charles R. Reddick Charles R. Reddick PC, Homerville, for appellee. Other party representation: John G. Edwards and Jason B. Moon, Valdosta.
    Case Number: A07A0099

    The father's failure to form a parental bond with the child or comply with his case plan supported the termination of his parental r

  • Snelson v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herman M. Kilgore, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Jesse D. Evans and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.w
    Case Number: A07A0834

    The trial counsel's arguably deficient performance in not utilizing Georgia's reciprocal discovery procedure to obtain a copy of the note that the victim wrote stating that she lent the defendant he

  • Thompson v. General Security Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Manley F. Brown, John C. Clark, Jarome E. Gautreaux O'Neal Brown & Clark PC, Charles M. Cork III Gambrell & Stolz LLP, Macon, and Dennis P. Helmreich, Lexington, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Joseph R. Cruser, Nola D. Jackson Cruser & Mitchell, Norcross, Stephanie C. Patel, R. Clay Porter Dennis, Corry, Porter & Smith, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jeffrey W. Stump, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0699; A07A0700

    The trial court did not err in ruling that the defendant insurer filed a Form K, Uniform Notice of Cancellation of Motor Carrier Insurance Policies, with the Georgia Public Service Commission PSC on

  • Edmondson v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel R. Partain, Public Defender, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Layla V. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0032

    The trial court did not err in refusing to merge the defendant's driving a vehicle with defective equipment convictions, since different facts proved each conviction for which he was sent

  • In the Interest of R. B.

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kris-Ann Stanley, Hiawassee, for the mother. Jeanne C. Davis, Blairsville, for the father. Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and E. Paul Stanley, Gainesville, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A07A0345; A07A0346

    Evidence that the mother failed to complete her reunification plan, failed her drug screens, failed to demonstrate six months of stable employment and the father's incarceration and his failure to e

  • Burdett v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles K. Wood Jr., Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Lawrenceville, and Deborah R. Fluker, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0721

    The defendant withdrew or waived his speedy trial demand when his counsel filed a ' "Motion to Withdraw Demand For a Speedy Trial" ' and requested a continuance of the defendant's trial shortly there

  • Head v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lon P. Kemeness, Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0670

    There was no reasonable probability that the outcome of the defendant's trial would have differed, if his counsel had objected to cumulative testimony about a prior difficulty with one of the vi