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  • In the Interest of J.J.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mathias Skowranek, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Stephanie B. Hope, Special Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and James T. Chaffin III, McDonough, for appellee. Other Party Representation: William D. Patten Jr., Stockbridge.
    Case Number: A03A0231

    Termination of the mother's parental rights was in the children's best interest where their mother had been incarcerated for 15 out of 24 months, was subject to extradition on out-of-state charges a

  • Vasquez v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2003-01-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacqueline K. Taylor J. Taylor & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul B. Kemeness, Dunwoody, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1814

    Plaintiff did not have to prove that she suffered an actual injury to support her claim for battery, an intentional

  • Jenkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-01-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Garrett Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Jason R. Troiano and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorneys, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0097

    Although the 9-year-old rape victim did not resist the defendant on the occasion in question, the jury was entitled to believe that the defendant induce the victim's lack of resistance by threatenin

  • In the Interest of T.H.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michele W. Ogletree and Harold A. Sturdivant Sullivan, Sturdivant & Ogletree PC, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Daniel A. Hiatt, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Robert H. English, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin and James E. Sherrill Griffin Judicial Circuit, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1603

    A juvenile who was going from his grandmother's home to his own home on a dirt bike was neither wandering nor loitering when the officers stopped him for a traffic viol

  • State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. v. Goodman

    Publication Date: 2003-01-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph H. Barrow, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: John R. Dickey, Garden City, Edward M. Hughes Karsman, Brooks & Callaway PC, Savannah, Timothy J. Haeussler and Ronald K. Thompson, Rincon, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A2094

    A jury question remained as to whether an insurer was liable for the drowning of the insured's 7-year-old niece in a pond on the insured's property since there was conflicting evidence as to whether

  • King v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-01-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael M. Sheffield, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Niria D. Baggett, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1107

    The arresting officer had probable cause to detain defendant and his co-defendant based on a BOLO issued after an armed robbery at the co-defendant's former place of emplo

  • Hortman v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-01-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Althea L. Buafo Buafo & Assocs., Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Myra H. Kline, Assistant District Attorney, and Kimberly S. Schwartz, District Attorney's Office, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1746

    Despite defendant's intent to exercise domain and control over more than 50 pounds of marijuana addressed for delivery in Georgia, he no longer had the power to do so after Texas law enforcement off

  • In the Interest of V.I.D. and S.K.D.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark J. Nathan, Savannah, 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 Leo G. Beckmann Jr. Beckmann & Lewis LLP, Savannah, for appellee. Other party representation: Linda J. Carter, Savannah.
    Case Number: A03A0349

    Evidence that the psychologically unstable mother violated a court order by allowing unsupervised contact with the children's father who had a history child molestation supported the termination of

  • Parks v. Hyundai Motor Am. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rita T. Williams Williams & Assocs., Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Frank F. Middleton IV, Charles K. Reed, Jill C. Kuhn McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, and Stephen P. Harrison Harrison & Harrison, McDonough, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1138; A02A1139

    The trial court prematurely granted summary judgment to an automobile distributor in the plaintiffs' injury and wrongful death suits where evidence showed that the distributor was less than forthrig

  • Beauchamp v. State of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott R. Tolbert and Christopher D. Elrod Tolbert & Elrod, Jefferson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0365

    Defendant used his forfeited Isuzu Trooper to transport bottles of meth