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  • Dixon v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Public Defender, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and David E. Boyle, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0393

    The officers had probable cause to stop the defendants' vehicle in connection with their investigation into the theft and abandonment of a utility trailer, since the defendants' truck matched the BO

  • Oliver v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, McDonough, for Oliver. J. Scott Key Sexton & Morris PC, Stockbridge, for Baskerville. Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, James L. Wright III, and Alicia C. Gant, Assistant District Attorneys, McDonough, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A05A0695; A05A0696

    Both victims identified the defendants as the two masked men who robbed a service station of approximately $820.

  • State v. Massa

    Publication Date: 2005-07-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory R. Barton, Christopher L. Wynn, Solicitors General, and Jeffrey M. Gore Solicitor General's Office, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bobby G. New and John D. Thalhimer, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0704

    The evidence authorized the trial court to reject the officer's testimony that he could identify a very small amount of very small particles of what appeared to be plant material in a baggie that wa

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Robinson III, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0328

    Evidence that the defendant pleaded guilty to two crimes involving the taking of computers or computer equipment from office buildings late at night was admissible to show his identity, course of co

  • In the Interest of L. G. and Y. G.

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Watkins, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Jason T. Harper Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough, for appellee. Other party representation: Faye E. Hays, Stockbridge, and Gerald P. Privin, McDonough.
    Case Number: A05A0519

    The mother's failure to remain drug and alcohol free and out of jail supported the termination of her parental r

  • LecStar Telecom Inc. v. Grenfell

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey R. Joyce and Joseph D. Young Greenlee, Young & Thrasher LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gary R. Kessler Stuart, Irvin, Stanford & Kessler, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: John K. Wells and Robert B. Tidwell Brock, Clay, Calhoun, Wilson & Rogers PC, Marietta.
    Case Number: A05A0032

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the correction of a misnomer as to the names of the defendants because there was no change of parties, no new party that had not been served

  • Atlanta Humane Soc'y v. Mills

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward L. Greenblatt, Janet L. Bozeman and James V. Zito Lipshutz, Greenblatt & King, Atlanta, for Atlanta Humane Soc'y and others. Alan I. Begner, Robert M. Adelson and Katherine K. Wood Begner & Begner PC, for Mills. Other party representation: Stacy S. Levy, Decatur, and James Stark, Englewood, Colo.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A2480; A03A2481

    As a quasi-governmental entity, the county humane society was barred from bringing a defamation a

  • Carlisle v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1128

    No evidence showed that defendant knew that her co-defendant was prohibited from contacting the stalking victim as a condition of his

  • Awolusi v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephanie S. Benfield Stuckey & Manheimer LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey H. Brickman, Acting District Attorney, and Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0238

    Probable cause supported the search warrant despite the affiant's incorrect testimony that the SKU nu on jewelry found at the defendant's store were as unique as vehicle VIN nu

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Norman Davis, Waycross, proceeded pro se. J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Charles M. Stines, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, and Joseph K. Mulholland District Attorney's Office, Albany, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A05A0745

    The trial did not abuse its discretion in requiring the defendant to proceed pro se on his motion for new trial because his conduct in serially dismissing and instituting grievances against si