• In the Interest of J. B.

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua J. Smith, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Richard K. Murray, Dalton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0250

    Evidence that the grandmother was found drunk, unresponsive and unable to care for her grandchild supported the juvenile court's order approving a nonreunification

  • City of Atlanta v. Paulk

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, and Kendric E. Smith City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael J. Kramer, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0715

    Absent a transcript, the presumably supported the trial court's finding that the city wilfully refused to comply with the plaintiff's discovery requests after the trial court granted his motion to c

  • Morris v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey H. Brickman, Acting District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0469

    The evidence, including the defendant's confession that he broke into a warehouse and stole computers out of a car, supported his convictions for burglary and entering an automobile with intent to c

  • Buckner v. Douglas County

    Publication Date: 2005-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Kevin Moore Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul B. Frickey and Dana K. Maine Freeman, Mathis & Gary, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A05A0881

    The Board of Commissioner's letter to the plaintiff agreeing to allow him to develop property in accordance with prior zoning amounted to an agreement to amend the county's zoning ordinance in viola

  • Cornelius v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, and Sandra G. Matson, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A0468

    The defendant fired a handgun four or five times into the cab of a pickup truck were three people were si

  • In the Interest of H. D. T.

    Publication Date: 2005-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry M. Daniel, Waynesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, William F. Collins, Atlanta, and Anne R. Moore, Statesboro, for appellee. Other party representation: Stuart H. Patray Hal Roach Jr. PC, Statesboro, and Earle J. Duncan III, Darien.

    Case Number: A05A0654

    The mother's unrehabilitated drug abuse rendered her incapable of adequately providing for her children and she unjustifiably failed to comply with her reunification

  • Gray v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Public Defender, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Kelly D. Kautz, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.

    Case Number: A05A1415

    The record did not show that the trial court considered the seven factors set forth in O.C.G.A. § 17-14-10 in determining the nature and amount of restit

  • 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