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  • Lopez v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-04-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephanie S. Benfield Stuckey & Manheimer LLC, Decatur, for Lopez. Wystan B. Getz Clark & Towne PC, Lawrenceville, for Medrano. Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A03A0470; A03A0471

    The trial court did not err in failing to give the first defendant's requested charge on false imprisonment since the evidence established that there was either a kidnapping or no detention-related

  • In the Interest of K. M.

    Publication Date: 2003-04-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen B. Taylor Harry Pavilack & Assocs., Statesboro, 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 Anne R. Moore, Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0357

    The father's sexual abuse of the oldest child and the parents' intellectual deficiencies and mental health conditions, which limited their pa capabilities, supported the termination of their p

  • Gilmer v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-04-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory W. Valpey Valpey & Walker and Elizabeth B. Reisman, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason J. Deal, District Attorney, and Lee Darragh, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0197

    The victim discovered the defendant in her car digging through her purse and the defendant threatened to kill her if she did not

  • Barranco v. Welcome Years Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-04-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven S. Griffin and Robert B. Friedman King & Spalding, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frederick L. Wright II Vaughn, Wright & Stearns, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0017

    The defendant failed to comply with Georgia's Hazardous Site Response Act after a site assessment revealed hazardous concentrations of lead in the soil of property the plaintiff contracted t

  • In the Interest of A. B. and T. B.

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Juliet K. Rowell, Jackson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and W. Ashley Hawkins, Forsyth, for appellee. Other party representation: Christopher E. Chapman, McDonough, and Wilson H. Bush Bush & Smith, Jackson.
    Case Number: A03A0930

    The unemployed mother's alcohol and cocaine abuse, failure to take her anti-psychotic medication and failure to attend her mental health treatment program supported the termination of her parental r

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Land Newton County Public Defender's Office, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Brian K. Ross, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0238

    The trial court had no authority to modify defendant's sentence after expiration of the term of court in which it was entered or before defendant's probationary period

  • Jerry Dickerson Presents Inc. v. Concert/Southern Chastain Promotions

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry R. Bauer Jr. Bauer & Deitch, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward K. Smith Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Susan A. Cahoon and Michael W. Tyler Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Kendric E. Smith City of Atlanta Dep't of Law, Diane P. Flannery, Dean A. Calloway Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue and Samira Jones Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A03A0680

    A business arrangement between Chastain Park's concert promoter and a mi -owned concert promotion business, under which a percentage of the venue's available event dates were subleased to the m

  • Studenic v. Birk

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas J. Davis Davis Law Group PC and Wayne S. Tartline Belli, Weil, Grozbean & Davis LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John K. Moore and John H. Moore Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marietta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1844

    The trial court's sua sponte grant of summary judgment to the defendants was premature because the critical issue on which the trial court based its final judgment was one never before raised by the

  • Howard v. Brantley County, Ga.

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phillip N. Golub Houston & Golub PC, Blackshear, for appellant.
    for defendant: . W. Vincent Settle III, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0886

    The county could not negotiate a contract for road striping services outside of the statutory bidding process because O.C.G.A. § 32-1-3 6 expressly defines road striping as a form of road constructi

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, and Katherine K. Lumsden, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0477

    Defense counsel was not deficient for filing an improper, but meritless, motion to recuse the trial