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  • Farley v. Hawkins

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chester L. Cannon Jr. Smith & Cannon, McRae, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alice W. Padgett, Augusta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A06A0214

    In the absence of a trial transcript, clear and convincing evidence presumably supported the trial court's decision to terminate the father's parental r

  • In the Interest of C. A.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sonya R. Chachere-Compton, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Andrea R. Moldovan, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0539

    Evidence that his twin 2-month-olds had multiple fractures and that father admittedly abused them supported the termination of the father's parental r

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Billy M. Grantham, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, and Charles M. Stines, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0624

    The defendant cashed a forged grant check at a grocery

  • Mabra v. Deutsche Bank & Trust Co. Americas f/k/a Bankers Trust Co.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey H. Schneider and Scott A. Johnson Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John E. Robinson and Gregory H. Blazer McLarty, Robinson & Van Voorhies LLP, Decatur, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A1890

    The defendant was a bona fide purchaser for value, since the quitclaim deed that the plaintiff's husband forged that purported to transfer the plaintiff's interest in her marital home to her husband

  • Sellers v. Sellers

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan D. Raymond and Philip T. Raymond III Shaffer, Raymond & Dalton, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roxanne M. Hinson Westmoreland, Patterson & Moseley, Macon, for appellees. Other party representation: Jon-Selby R. Hawk Sell & Melton LLP, Macon.
    Case Number: A05A1842

    The evidence showed that the mother significantly failed to support her child for one year prior to the filing of the adoption pet

  • Waddell v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. M. Raffauf, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1961

    The trial court did not err in charging the jury on parties to a crime, since the aggravated assault and armed robbery victim saw a second individual at the crime scene and did not actually see the

  • In the Interest of A. R. A. S.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Webb, Assistant Public Defender, Chatsworth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Cynthia N. Johnson, Cohutta, for appellee. Other party representation: Philip F. Woodward, Dalton.
    Case Number: A06A0331

    Parents have no right to refuse to testify at a parental rights hearing, even to avoid self-incrimination, and, if a parent refuses to testify, the trial court is authorized to draw a negative infer

  • 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