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  • Jenkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles E. Day, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1735

    Defense counsel was not deficient for not filing a statutory speedy trial d

  • Bryson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence A. Stockton Jr. and Brian M. Rickman Stockton & Stockton LLC, Clayton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarkesville, and Richard K. Bridgeman, Assistant District Attorney, Toccoa, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1344

    The evidence, including both victims' videotaped interviews and their trial testimony, supported the defendant's convictions for aggravated sodomy and child molest

  • In the Interest of K. J. M.

    Publication Date: 2006-11-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stacy S. Garguilo, Atlanta, and David J. Koontz Law Office of Dennis C. O'Brien, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel and Sanders B. Deen, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Kevin J. Rogers, Smyrna, and R. Stacy Hylton, Marietta.
    Case Number: A06A2208

    The older child suffered multiple unexplained fractures of his ribs and legs and the younger child cried uncontrollably during scheduled visitation with her m

  • Whittle v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melinda D. Taylor Spruell Taylor & Assocs. PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry E. Morgan, Solicitor General, and Kimberly K. Frye, Assistant Solicitor, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1134

    The evidence authorized the trial court to find that the arresting officer made a reasonable effort to accommodate the DUI defendant's request for an independent blood

  • Edwards v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leanne K. Shipley Public Defendant's Office, George H. Law III and H. Bradford Morris Jr., Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, Dawsonville, and Alison W. Toller, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2491

    The trial court did not err in refusing to go forward with the hearing on the defendant's motion to suppress, because she did not appear at the hearing and her counsel did not have authority to waiv

  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Graylin C. Ward, Newnan, and Gerald P. Word, Chief Circuit Public Defender, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Kevin T. McMurry, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2108

    The investigating officer had probable cause to stop the defendant's car for having an invalid drive-ou

  • Moody v. Gilliam

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clarence R. Johnson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dale K. Scott, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2000

    The plaintiff failed to exercise the greatest possible due diligence in serving the defendant outside the statute of limitation after she became aware of a problem with se

  • Register v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade H. Crumbley Crumbley & Crumbley and Dale T. Preiser, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, Alicia C. Gant, Assistant District Attorney, and David E. Slemons District Attorney's Office, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2132

    The arresting officer's search of the car in which the defendant was riding was illegal, because he based the search on invalid arrest war

  • Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth. v. Reid

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Routman MARTA Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David H. Moskowitz Moskowitz & Carraway, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Lee Southwell State Board of Workers' Compensation, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A0996

    The appellate division of the State Board of Workers' Compensation's loss of the employer's motion for reconsideration, along with the affidavits and exhibits attached in support thereof, did not de

  • Pickle v. Rayonier Forest Resources LP

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Howard C. Kaufold Durden, Kaufold, Rice & Tribble, Vidalia, for appellant.
    for defendant: David A. Sapp and Lawrence J. LoRusso Green, Johnson & Landers LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1196

    The plaintiff's claim-whether the defendant cut and removed timber from the plaintiff's property and sold it without paying the plaintiff-did not sound in tort, since the subject matter of the parti