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  • Price v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-08-18
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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

  • Rite-Aid Corp. v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2006-08-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Bruffey Jr. and Christi L. Hodges Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thomas W. Herman Westmoreland, Patterson, Moseley & Hinson LLP, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: Lee Southwell State Board of Workers' Compensation, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A0682

    The plaintiff was entitled to compensation for a catastrophic injury under O.C.G.A. § 34-9-200.1 g 6, as it existed when she was injured in May 1996, because there was evidence that she could not pe

  • Banks v. City of Hampton

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard W. Hendrix Finch, McCranie, Brown & Thrash, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James R. Westbury Jr. Mullins, Whalen & Westbury, Griffin, Stephanie K. Jones, Rex, and Steven M. Fincher Fincher & Hecht LLC, Jonesboro, for appellees.
    Case Number: A06A0159

    A party's financial interest in a case cannot be dispositive of whether he or she is a "nominal party" for venue purposes and venue and jurisdiction are not conferred based on the party with the gre

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mario S. Ninfo Ninfo & Ross PA, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Layla V. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0008

    The trial court erred in sentencing the defendant to serve a life sentence without parole on his convictions for rape, aggravated sodomy, aggravated assault, burglary and false imprisonment, since t