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  • Ryan v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Alvera A. Wheeler, Assistant District Attorney, and David K. Getachew-Smith District Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1552

    The defendant was not entitled to a mistrial after a witness testified about his bad reputation, since the prosecutor did not deliberately elicit the response and the trial court immediately struck

  • State v. McKinney

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: David A. LaMalva, Conyers, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1330

    The defendant's 14-year-old son did not have the particularized authority to consent to the search of his father's be

  • Woods v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, Acworth, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Monroe, Layla V. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1744

    The trial court's admission of an investigator's statement that the victim was "believable" did not amount to plain

  • Alvarez v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard M. Nichols, Douglas, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Waycross, and Kurt J. Martin, Assistant District Attorney, Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2042

    The victim's videotaped interview and the testimony of her examining physician supported the defendant's conviction for child molest

  • Benefield v. Martin

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry C. Carter Jr., Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joel K. Tharpe, Ryan M. Reid, Gainesville, and Melody A. Glouton Webb, Tanner & Powell, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1719

    The plaintiff's claims against her brothers arising out of their administration of their parents' estates were within the probate court's jurisdi

  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard K. Murray, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, and Patricia K. Atwill, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1201; A05A1202

    The superior court had concurrent jurisdiction with the juvenile court over a 1974 armed robbery offense, which the defendant committed when he was 16 year

  • Pope v. Board of Comm'rs of Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy J. Sweeney, James P. Robertson Jr., Melana Kopman and Gretchen M. Holt Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: K. Prabhaker Reddy Reddy & Silvis LLC, Richard R. Gignilliat Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, and James J. Park U. S. Court of Appeals, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A1237

    The appellants' own letter to the county board of commissioners provided some evidence supporting their removal from their positions on the county's board of tax asse

  • Wilson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Billy M. Grantham, Donalsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, and Richard L. Parker, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2041

    The trial court harmlessly erred in admitting a copy of a forged check, since the state's witnesses provided direct testimony regarding the details of the check and specifically testified about the

  • In the Interest of M. W.

    Publication Date: 2005-11-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josephine B. Jones, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and W. Ashley Hawkins, Forsyth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1132

    Evidence showing that the father's mild mental retardation and adjustment disorder limit his ability to maintain a safe and clean residence supported the termination of his parental r

  • Grier v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry M. Hazen, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1463

    Even if the trial court erred in excluding evidence that the victim may have voluntarily gone to the first co-defendant's home, other evidence showed that the defendant falsely imprisoned her, by fo