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  • Sun v. Mercedes Benz Credit Corp.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. McKnight Jr. Freed & Bermen PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Carmichael and Shawn M. Winterich Stokes, Lazarus & Carmichael, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1822

    A liquidated damages provision obligating the lessee to pay a monthly lease payment in addition to all of the lease payments due and owing under the lease at the time of the lessee's default, was an

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Storms Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, and Gregory K. Schwarz, Solicitor, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1916

    The victim presumably waived any marital privilege she may have had as defendant's common-law wife when she voluntarily testified at defendant's

  • Lane v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacqueline J. Herring, Fulton County Conflict Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1778

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that defendant did not waive his right to open and close arguments when his co-defendant's counsel had a police witness read a portion of hi

  • In the Interest of R. W. & W. W.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelley S. Powell, Hampton, and Martin C. Jones Webb, Stuckey & Lindsey LLC, Peachtree City, 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, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and W. Ashley Hawkins, Special Assistant Attorney General, Forsyth, for appellee. Other party representation: Wilson H. Bush Bush & Smith, Jackson.
    Case Number: A01A2410

    Evidence that the children lived in a trash-filled home with a broken toilet and that the mother left them unsupervised supported the termination of the mother's parental r

  • Kmart Corp v. Merriweather

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Grant, Nowell D. Berreth and Jeffrey J. Swart Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John B. Levy and Michael Weinstock Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A2298

    The Court could not consider defendants' challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence because they failed to include all of the evidence presented at trial in the appellate r

  • Warren v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael G. Kam Kam & Ebersbach PC, Newnan, and Valerie C. Cooke, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A2210

    The defendants were not unreasonably detained when a drug dog conducted an exterior free air sniff of their vehicle since the driver consented to a plain view search and the dog was already present

  • Fleshe v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Deborah F. Weiss Chandler & Britt LLC, Buford, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A2131

    Defendant was not entitled to a sua sponte competency hearing where he displayed no irrational behavior at trial and no prior medical opinion indicated that he was incompetent or mentally imp

  • In the Interest of B. W.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul Fryer, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Culpepper III, Cairo, Catherine M. Williams Williams & Spears PC, Thomasville, 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.
    Case Number: A01A2086

    The father's guilty plea to child cruelty involving his 2-month-old supported the termination of his parental r

  • Campbell v. Coates

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William L. Lundy Jr., Charles E. Morris Jr. Parker and Lundy, and W. Wright Gammon Jr. Gammon and Anderson, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Clinton Sumner Jr., Susan D. Taylor Magruder & Sumner, Rome, Lanny B. Bridgers and Steven J. Estep King & Spalding, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A2377

    The evidence supported the trial court's conclusion that plaintiff did not properly serve defendant through his son pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 9-11-

  • In the Interest of A. A.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexander T. Rundlet Southern Ctr. For Human Rights, Atlanta for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Mary E. Evans-Battle, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1704

    The victims' testimony that the juvenile defendant threatened them with a knife supported the juvenile's delinquency adjudic