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  • Baughcum v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ann C. Stahl, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Sharon M. Fox, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0261

    The defendant was not entitled to a mistrial based on the similar transaction witness's unresponsive statements during defense counsel's questi

  • In the Interest of K. A. P.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Webb, Assistant Public Defender, Chatsworth, and Bentley C. Adams III Public Defender's Office, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rodney Q. Quarles, Chatsworth, and Philip F. Woodward, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2332

    The 25-year-old mother has used drugs since she was 13, she was under the infl of drugs at the termination hearing and she physically threatened her child and his siblings while under the infl

  • Ward v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven E. Lister and Scott W. DePlonty, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Thomas R. McBerry, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2288

    The defendant's consent did not validate a search, which was the product of an unlawful dete

  • Green v. Home Depot U.S.A. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Millard C. Farmer Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lloyd B. Hedrick Jr. and Evan R. Mermelstein Gray, Hedrick & Edenfield LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A2096

    The plaintiff failed to show that a home store had actual or constructive notice of the alleged hazard-a box of light bulbs that fell on the plaintiff's head from an overhead

  • In the Interest of M. S.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald R. Parker, Assistant Pub. Defender, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0149

    Child molestation is not a designated felony under O.C.G.A. § 15-

  • In the Interest of J. S. B.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melvin R. Horne, Cairo, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Brian D. Bellamy, Thomasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0522

    Vague evidence of the mother's past history of arrests, mental health issues and inability to maintain employment was insufficient to show that her children's continued deprivation was likely to cau

  • In the Interest of A. J. M.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Epps. Gray, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Kelli C. Rutherford, Gray, and Douglas L. Price, Milledgeville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1976

    Since the minor child was in the legal custody of DFACS in Jones county under an emergency shelter care order, a rebuttable presumption arose that the child had a Jones county address for purposes o

  • In the Interest of M. S.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald R. Parker, Assistant Pub. Defender, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0149

    Child molestation is not a designated felony under O.C.G.A. § 15-

  • Lee v. Thomason

    Publication Date: 2006-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicolle G. Holt, County Attorney, Willie J. Lovett Jr., Rory K. Starkey and Marina K. Duncan County Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Allen L. Broughton Broughton & Fernandez and Brian C. McCarthy, Roswell, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A1945

    Loss of consortium damages are not absolutely dependant on proof of a loss or impairment of sexual rela

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald R. Parker Assistant Pub. Defender, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, and Samuel M. Olmstead District Attorney's Office, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0554

    The defendant sold $20 worth of cocaine to an undercover of