Filter This View

  • Cater v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-08-18
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Jones and Martin D. Marshall King & King & Jones PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1441

    The trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion to suppress the evidence found in his vehicle after he was stopped at a valid road

  • McGarrah v. Posig

    Publication Date: 2006-08-18
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Gorby and James W. Standard Jr. Gorby, Reeves & Peters PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Laura W. Speed-Dalton and Ian R. Rapaport Chambers, Aholt & Rickard LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Wade K. Copeland, Courtney A. Buxton Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Thomas J. Mew IV and Robert B. Remar Rogers & Hardin LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A1205

    O.C.G.A. § 19-7-5 does not create a private cause of action for the failure to report suspected child

  • In the Interest of J. D.

    Publication Date: 2006-08-18
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Bennett Jr. Bennett Law Firm, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Charles R. Reddick, Homerville, for appellee. Other party representation: Vernita L. Lee, Valdosta.
    Case Number: A06A1467

    The mother admitted that she did not want to parent the child, she failed to comply with her reunification goals, she rarely visited the child and she paid no child su

  • Price v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-08-18
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Sandra G. Rivers, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1550

    Ample evidence in the record supported the trial court's finding that the defendant's plea was knowing, voluntary and unco

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-08-18
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tony L. Axam Axam, Adams & Secret PA, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Charles R. Sheppard and Rebecca A. Wright, Assistant District Attorneys, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1399

    The plain error doctrine is limited to capital cases and criminal cases in which the trial judge allegedly intimates an opinion of the defendant's

  • Gulfstream Aerospace Servs. Corp. v. United States Aviation Underwriters Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-08-11
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher D. Britt and Brent J. Savage Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fred S. Clark Clark, Clark & Steinmetz, Savannah, Jon A. Kodani and Jeffrey J. Williams Law Office of Jon A. Kodani, Santa Monica, Calif., for appellees. Other party representation: J. Arthur Mozley Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A0660

    One who undertakes to render services has a duty to exercise reasonable care, and some evidence showed that appellant's subsidiary undertook review of an airplane's logbooks in 1998 for compliance w

  • In the Interest of K. L.

    Publication Date: 2006-08-11
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George P. Govignon Bailey & Assocs. and William R. Thompson Jr., Calhoun, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Lorie A. Moss, Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1563

    Clear and convincing evidence supported a finding that the continued deprivation of the mother's special-needs children would cause them serious

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-08-11
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ingrid P. Driskell, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Bradfield M. Shealy, Senior Assistant District Attorney, and Tracy K. Chapman, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1204

    Plea counsel was not deficient for advising the defendant to enter into a nonnegotiated guilty plea to kidnapping, rape, aggravated sodomy and armed ro

  • Morgan v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-08-11
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Millsaps, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Melanie B. McCrorey, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1040

    Conviction for theft by receiving reversed as no evidence showed that the defendant possessed or controlled the stolen car at issue or aided or abetted the

  • Scott v. City of Valdosta

    Publication Date: 2006-08-04
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Saleem D. Dennis, Preyesh K. Maniklal and Richard A. Wilkes Gregory, Christy, Maniklal & Dennis LLP, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James L. Elliott Elliott & Blackburn PC, Timothy M. Tanner and George T. Talley Coleman, Talley, Newbern, Kurrie, Preston & Holland, Valdosta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A06A0128

    The plaintiff's false arrest and false imprisonment claims against the county and city defendants were barred by sovereign imm