• Witcher v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan M. Reid, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A2221

    Defendant waived his Fourth Amendment rights as a special condition of his probation and his flight suggested criminal act

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Whitman M. Dodge, Public Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0114

    Defendant was not entitled to discharge and acquittal because he failed to prove that he properly served the state with his speedy trial demand as required by O.C.G.A. § 17-

  • Crisler v. Farber

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George C. Creal Jr., Forest Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard B. Eason Jr. and Carolyn J. Kennedy Eason, Kennedy & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A02A1240

    Defendants failed to show that they were entitled to judgment as a matter of law where the plaintiff disputed the authenticity of a purported release of liab

  • Williams v. Young

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank J. Klosik Jr., Jason R. Manton and Robert J. McCune Greer, Klosik, Daugherty & Swank, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas S. Chambless, Dawn G. Benson Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless, and Charles K. Wainright II, Albany, for appellees. Other party representation: H. Andrew Owen Jr., Roger E. Harris Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, and Antoinette D. Johnson, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A00A1393

    The plaintiff filed suit more than two years after the defendant allegedly misdiagnosed her medical cond

  • Guillen v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Deborah M. Vaughan and Eugene Novy Novy, James & Vaughan, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1477

    The defendant failed to prove that she was insane when she kidnapped and stabbed a co-worker since she took methodical steps to implement her c

  • In the Interest of K.C.

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin W. Drummond Hamrick, Drummond & Miller LLP, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert A. Kunz Kunz & Assocs. PA, Douglasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0054

    The juvenile court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the child molestation victim's statements to his mother and a family nurse practitioner, since there was no evidence that he was forced

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker and Candace K. Slezak, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1375

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the defendant's boyfriend's statement to a detective under the necessity exception to the hearsay rule since the statement was sufficiently

  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ricky W. Morris Jr. Sexton & Morris PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1617

    The per se DUI defendant was entitled to a charge on the defense of accident or misfortune since the jury could have found that the fully-loaded 18 wheeler which he rear-ended on the interstate dece

  • Bass Custom Landscapes Inc. v. Cunard

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wendell K. Howell Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: John D. Carey McKenney, Jordan & Carey, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: Betty D. Wheeler Alan W. Connell, and Catherine B. Evans Adams, Barfield, Dunaway & Hankinson, Thomaston.

    Case Number: A02A0909

    A jury question remained as to whether the plaintiff assumed the risk of falling on the icy steps outside her place of employment, since she testified that refusing her branch manager's request to t

  • Whitehead v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walker L. Chandler, Zebulon, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Charles E. Rooks, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1576

    The officers' corroboration of the informant's tip through surveillance gave them reasonable suspicion to believe that defendant was engaged in criminal activity before they stopped his ve