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  • In the Interest of A. T.

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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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, William C. Joy, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and Andrea R. Moldovan, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0131

    The Court reinstated the biological mother's parental rights because DFACS failed to present any evidence that her children would be seriously affected by a continuing parental relationship with the

  • Wilson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Millsaps, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Monroe, and Robert B. Faircloth Newton County District Attorney's Office, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0141

    The defendant's conviction for cocaine possession was reversed due to the ineffective assistance of his trial co

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcia G. Shein, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, and Gregory W. Edwards District Attorney's Office, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0069

    The defendant failed to show how he was harmed by the trial court's comment that it would instruct the jury on how to analyze the statements of a defendant or by the jury charge

  • Steele v. Atlanta Maternal-Fetal Med. PC

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen F. Harris and Jim N. Peterson Jr. Peterson & Harris PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John E. Hall Jr. and Jonathan Marigliano Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A04A2023

    The trial court reversibly erred in overruling the plaintiffs' objection to defense counsel's closing argument, in which counsel effectively argued that the plaintiffs bore the burden of proving the

  • Owens v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and James L. Wright III, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0451

    The court did not err in making the defendant's 5-year sentences on two firearm possession convictions consecutive to all other sentences given at

  • Pitts v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric A. Ballinger, Canton, and Louis M. Turchiarelli, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Samuel K. Barger, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1621

    A juvenile court judge had subject matter jurisdiction over a felony criminal case pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 15-1-9.1 b 2, after she responded to an intra-county judicial request for assis

  • In the Interest of D. L. S.

    Publication Date: 2005-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold W. Wallace III, Thomson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Thomas B. Hammond, Thomson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0375

    The children were removed from their parents' custody due to extreme neglect and unsafe living conditions, the parents failed to comply with the reunification plan, and the parents failed to obtain

  • Stinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Crowe Lane & Crowe PC, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, John B. Johnson III, Ann S. Williams and Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorneys, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2554

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that the defendant did not retain an unqualified right to withdraw his guilty plea after he signed a Drug Court Contract and utilized the b

  • Thompson v. Thompson

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles M. Cork III Reynolds & McArthur, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: John K. Train IV and Julye M. Johns Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A2321

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that the trial court reversibly erred in a medical malpractice case in charging the jury that proximate cause is "sometimes called the domin

  • In the Interest of C. B.

    Publication Date: 2005-01-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher M. Miller Miller & Assocs., Jasper, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Dana M. Thompson, John F. Cline Dana M. Thompson & Assocs. PC, Canton, for appellee. Other party representation: Wallace W. Rogers Jr., Assistant District Attorney, and Michael C. Chisolm, Canton.
    Case Number: A04A1722

    The father's inability to care for his special needs child early in her life led to her admission to a hospital for serious ne