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  • Ziegler v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-11-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan P. Waters, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Elizabeth K. Bobbitt, and Myra H. Kline, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1471

    The accomplices corroborated each other's testimony in which they implicated the defendant in the armed robberies of two restaurants on two subsequent n

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-11-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Culp, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, and Melanie J. Brogden, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2273

    Any error in allowing two officers to testify that the toy gun used by the defendant looked real was harmless since their test was cumulative of another officer's unobjected-to test

  • Eason v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-11-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin W. Drummond and Ruth K. Johnson, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2206

    The defendant failed to show that his trial counsel was defi

  • Gibbs v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-10-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tony L. Axam and Asha T. Rodney Axam, Axam & Secret PA, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville,
    Case Number: A04A1738

    Defense counsel was deficient for failing to protect his opportunity to use the defendant's dental records at trial to corroborate the impeached and biased testimony of defense witnesses that defend

  • In the Interest of J. T. W.

    Publication Date: 2004-10-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason K. Hoffman, Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0961

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

  • Milner v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-10-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry V. Smith and Bret E. Rudeseal, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and Kay A. Wetherington, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1530

    The court's violation of O.C.G.A. § 17-8-57 did not seriously affect the integrity of the judicial proceedings where the court attempted to protect the pro se defendant's right to a fair

  • Grinstead v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-10-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles A. Aultman, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Amy E. Smith and Katherine K. Lumsden, Assistant District Attorneys, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0874

    The trial court abused its discretion in relying on only one other case to prove the reliability of the method of drug testing at

  • Board of Tax Assessors of Ware County Ga. v. Baptist Village Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-10-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Huey W. Spearman, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thomas C. James III, Stephen L. Dillard James, Bates, Pope & Spivey, Macon, and Vann K. Parrot Long & Denton, Quitman, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1215

    The trial court properly determined that appellee's independent-living units were entitled to the same home for the aged ad valorem property tax exemption under O.C.G.A. § 48-5-41 a 12 as its assist

  • Wilson v. J & L Melton Inc. d/b/a McDonald's Restaurant

    Publication Date: 2004-10-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa D. Wright, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce A. Taylor Jr. and Douglas K. Burrell Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1725

    The plaintiff could not recover damages for mental distress from eating french fries contaminated by blood from the defendant's "fry man" in the absence of any evidence of actual exposure to HIV or

  • Meeks v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-10-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony S. Carter, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Kelly D. Kautz, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0862

    Defense counsel was entitled to ask prospective jurors whether they had such strong feelings about child molestation that it would impair their judgment or make it difficult for them to judge the