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  • Toliver v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald K. Spivey, Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, Lafayette, and Douglas R Woodruff, Assistant District Attorney, Ringgold, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1805

    Defendant maintained a lookout for his wife while she replaced the bar codes of three expensive items with lower p

  • Builder Marts of Am. Inc. v. Gilbert

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William K. Carmichael and David M. Lilenfeld Stokes, Lazarus & Carmichael LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick J. Fox McNally, Fox, Mahler & Cameron, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1454

    A 1998 agreement which modified the terms of the parties or agreement released the guarantor from liability because the guarantor did not expressly consent to renewal or modification of the o

  • Marlowe v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Walton County Public Defender, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Jeffrey L. Foster, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1633

    Defendant committed attempted armed robbery when he threatened an 80-year-old victim in her home with a knife and demanded money from her and he committed a separate offense of aggravated assault wh

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Victoria D. Little, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1588; A02A1589

    The trial court improperly declared a mistrial in defendant's first criminal prosecution where defense counsel's conduct, though contemptuous, did not make it impossible for the trial to pr

  • Morrow v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James P. Brown Jr., McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Rutherford, Charles A. Spahos, Solicitors General, and Lydia M. Ferguson, Assistant Solicitor General, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1091

    A 911 call that two young intoxicated males were cursing and throwing things off the shelf at a grocery store provided reasonable suspicion to the responding officer to perform an investigative stop

  • In the Interest of J. C.

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold B. Baker, Valdosta, and Mark E. Mitchell, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney and Justo C. Cabral III, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1323

    The juvenile court violated the juvenile's right against self-incrimination and her right of confrontation when it failed to warn her that anything she said could be used against nd did not giv

  • Palmer v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmy D. Berry and D. Victor Reynolds, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Rose L. Wing and Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1084

    The officer did not need articulable suspicion to approach defendant's parked car and ask for the occupants' identific

  • Snipes v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, Hampton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Sandra A. Graves, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1614

    The trial court properly refused to charge on the lesser included offense of criminal trespass because there was no evidence of the amount of damage to the door of the house that defendant attempted

  • Watson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. King, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor, and Tasha M. Mosley, Assistant Solicitor General, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0852

    The trial court erred in dismissing the defendant's appeal for a delay in filing the trial transcript where the defendant claim she could not afford to pay for the transcript and the trial court had

  • Williamson v. Georgia Dep't of Human Resources

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elliott B. Watkins, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Annette M. Cowart and Bryan K. Webb, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1613

    Sovereign immunity did not bar the plaintiff's claim against her state employers under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act since the Fair Employment Practices Act creates a state right of ac