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  • Braham v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-03-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, Monica T. Myles, Douglas County Public Defender, and Jeffrey M. Gore Douglas County Public Defender's Office, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, and Brian K. Fortner Douglas County District Attorney's Office, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0628

    Defendant did not clearly and unambiguously request counsel during his custodial interrogation when he asked whether he could get an attorney qu

  • Lowery v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-03-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Stanford Cox III, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Jeffrey L. Foster, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0218

    The defendant's trial counsel was not deficient in failing to call him to testify in his own defense where the evidence showed that the defendant was well aware of his right to testify, but agreed w

  • State v. Morgan

    Publication Date: 2003-03-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Strauss, Walton County Public Defender, Monroe, and John L. Land Newton County Public Defender's Office, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0237

    The trial court correctly suppressed the marijuana discovered in the defendant's pocket after a pat-down search for weapons following an unlawful traffic

  • In the Interest of N.Q.

    Publication Date: 2003-03-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John 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 and Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Anne R. Moore, Statesboro.
    Case Number: A02A1822

    The mother's failure to comply with any DFACS case plan and her insistence that DFACS lacked authority to interfere with her r to raise her children supported the termination of her parental r

  • Walls v. Walls

    Publication Date: 2003-03-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph E. East, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas W. Mitchell III, Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2068

    The parties' purported settl agre was unenforceable because the parties did not reach an agre on all of the settl terms and no writings established the agre

  • Harvey v. Nichols

    Publication Date: 2003-03-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth J. Lander McNally, Edwards, Bailey & Lander, and Donald W. Osborne, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Edward D. Tolley, Robert C. Irwin III Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael LLP, Athens, and William T. Craig, Covington, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0568

    The jail detention officers' failure to regularly monitor a teenager in a holding cell was not the proximate cause of the teenager's su

  • Lopez v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-03-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. David Wolfe and Mark A. Yurachek L. David Wolf PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, C. Lance Cross and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2087

    Discovery of a weapon labeled for law enforcement use only and loaded with police-issue ammunition did not exclude the possibility that the weapon was given away or sold on the black market in viola

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-03-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy T. Herring, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Chad M. Doleac, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2334

    The arresting officer had authority to detain the defendant for a reasonable amount of time following a valid traffic stop to determine the status of the defendant's li

  • Head v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2003-03-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles W. Stephens Stephens & Shuler, Gainesville, and W. Ashley Hawkins, Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward L. Long Jr., Mark L. Degennaro Willis, McKenzie & Long, LaGrange, Paul E. Weathington and Dena K. Stoddard Allen & Weathington PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A2366

    The original trial court retained jurisdi to revoke its transfer of venue in the underlying medical malpractice case because the trial court did not transfer jurisdi

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-03-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Bennett Jr. Bennett Law Firm, Valdosta, for Roddrick Jackson. Terry L. Schwock, Valdosta, for Brian Jackson. J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Bradfield M. Shealy, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A02A2238, A02A2239

    Defendants' accomplice identified them as the masked men who robbed a convenience a store and identified the first defendant as the g