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  • 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

  • Moresi v. Evans

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David S. Bills, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William H. Major III and Peter R. York Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1168

    The Supreme Court in Webster v. Boyett, 269 Ga. 191 1998, did not mandate that trifurcation of a trial amounts to reversible error, but only suggested that trifurcation should be used on rare occa

  • Conley v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Akil K. Secret Axam, Adams & Secret, Atlanta, and Mary Erickson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Herman M. Kilgore and Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1812

    Hearsay evidence that the 3-year old victim told a doctor that his father had burned him with a cigarette was admissible since both the doctor and the victim testified at

  • In the Interest of T. H.

    Publication Date: 2002-10-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michele W. Ogletree and Harold A. Sturdivant Sullivan & Sturdivant, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Daniel A. Hiatt, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, 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

  • Sanders v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2002-10-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald L. Mize, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John H. Moore and Amy K. Weber Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1899

    Non-privileged writings and statements authorized the jury to find that plaintiff's brother falsely and maliciously impugned plaintiff's title to 38.6 acres of

  • Gray v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Y. Brown, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Erman J. Tanjuatco, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1524

    Defendant's intent to shoot at the victims in their car transferred to a fourth victim who was in her house when the gunfire exploded her patio

  • Schaner v. Sterling Factors Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Whelan, Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John B. Levy Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1215

    The trial court was not required to hold an evidentiary hearing on defendants' wilfulness where they completely failed to respond to discovery and the attempts to force them to c