Filter This View

  • Brewster v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Waller, Jr., Assistant Pub. Defender, Perry, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly P. Burke, District Attorney, and Katherine K. Lumsden, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0368

    Defendant's conviction for making a terroristic threat did not merge as a matter of fact with his conviction for attempted rape since separate, distinct facts supported each

  • Simmons v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynn Jr., District Attorney, and Alan A. Cook, Special Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0151

    Child witnesses are statutorily competent in criminal

  • Richey v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin G. Hilliard, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Nancy G. Brimberry, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0774

    Defendant shot the victim with a rifle after the victim and his friend followed the defendant to a nearby apartment complex to ascertain why the defendant threatene

  • Roebuck v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Jeffrey L. Foster, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1100

    In the absence of a trial transcript, the trial court presumably conducted the voir dire portion of defendant's trial in a regular and proper m

  • Reese v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Wright, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Tuwanda R. Williams, Assistant City Attorney, and Chiquita T. Johnson City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0896

    A police officer was officially immune from liability arising out of his arrest of the plaintiff for criminal trespass where the officer acted within his discretion and scope of auth

  • Anderson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wanda S. Jackson, East Point, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Layla V. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0668

    The trial court erred in sentencing a defendant with a prior felony conviction to serve 365 in a state detention center for misdemeanor ba

  • Wright v. Pine Hills Country Club Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl V. Walters, Thomas E. Pujadas Walters, Davis, Meeks & Pujadas, Ocilla, and Robert E. Sherrell Jay, Sherrell, Smith & Braddy PC, Fitzgerald, for Wright. Mary M. Katz Chambless, Higdon & Carson, Macon, for Pine Hills Country Club Inc. William P. Langdale III Langdale & Vallotton LLP, Valdosta, Craig N. Cowart Miller, Cowart, Cates & Howe LLP, Macon, for Newspaper Holdings Inc. E. B. Wilkin Jr., Perry & Walters, Albany, for State Farm.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A0178; A03A0179

    The plaintiff presented no expert testimony contradicting the defendants' evidence that a newspaper reporter was not noticeably intoxicated when the defendants served her al

  • In the Interest of M. A. M.

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carla J. Friend, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, and Robert E. Hall, Special Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0816

    The mother had a history of violence and seriously neglected her

  • Reeves v. Mohawk Factoring Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keven K. Kenison Kenison & Dudley, and Joel F. Geer, Greenville, S.C., for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard M. Howe and Lawrence A. Silverman Howe & Assocs. PC, Alpharetta, for appellee. Other party representation: John Powers The Carpet Place, Lawrenceville.
    Case Number: A03A0371

    A jury question remained as to whether the plaintiff was entitled to collect the balance remaining on the purchase of certain carpet products sold to defendant on account by plaintiff's parent co

  • In the Interest of K.W.

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gresham H. Harrison Harrison & Harrison, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Barry S. Haney Neel & Smith, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0403

    The South Carolina Department of Social Services maintained legal custody of th d placed in the custody of his paternal aunt and uncle in Georgia, since it never abdicated its jurisdiction to t