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  • Harvey v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and George W. K. Snyder Jr., Senior Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1232

    The trial court properly admitted evidence of two similar robberies to show defendant's intent, modus operandi and course of co

  • Riley v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven E. Phillips, Public Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0924

    Defense counsel's attorney stating that the trial court failed to review the lead investigator's files on remand lacked probative value because it was replete with inadmissible he

  • Jenkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William T. Payne, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1429

    The trial court did not clearly err in determining that defendant's custodial statement was voluntary based on the investigators' testimony that they did not threaten to take defendant's children

  • Threatt v. Forsyth County

    Publication Date: 2001-08-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Irwin W. Stolz Jr. Gambrell & Stolz LLP, and George E. Butler II, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Angela D. E. Davis, Kenneth E. Jarrard Jarrard & Davis LLP, and Rachel K. Iverson Morris, Manning & Martin, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0657; A01A0748

    The property owners were entitled to prejudgment interest from the date of the county's condemnation of their property based on the difference between the special master's $7.3 million award and the

  • Wallace v. Stringer

    Publication Date: 2001-08-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brent J. Savage and C. Dorian Britt Savage, Turner & Pinson, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Albert J. Descusati McLain & Merritt PC, Lucian Gillis Jr., Atlanta, and Anthony A. Rowell Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Tifton, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A0235

    A jury question remained as to whether defendant's employee's conduct in threatening plaintiff constituted an as

  • East Beach Properties Ltd. v. Taylor

    Publication Date: 2001-08-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony H. Abbott and Laurie K. Abbott Abbott & Abbott, Savannah, for East Beach Properties Ltd. George M. Rountree George M. Rountree & Assocs. PC, for Taylor. Christopher J. O'Donnell, Brunswick, for Ryals. Other party representation: W. Gary Moore, Glynn County Attorney, and Desiree E. Watson, Assistant County Attorney, Brunswick.
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    Case Number: A01A0028; A01A0029; A01A0030

    In consolidated cases involving a dispute over the permissible use of beach easements, the trial court properly found that the burdened land could only be developed subject to the rights of the ease

  • Shelton v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sharon L. Hopkins, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Rodney K. Miles, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1447

    Any error in the state's failure to redact defen videotaped statement to exclude the officer's reference to the victim's truthfulness was harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence of defe

  • Carson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia F. Angeli, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1032

    The court properly excluded irrelevant evidence that the arresting officer made an improper statement to potential jurors during defendant's first

  • Coleman v. Grimes

    Publication Date: 2001-08-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josie L. Redwine, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald W. Huskins, Solicitor General, Eatonton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1470

    Collateral estoppel barred the child's mother and step-father from relitigating their claims that the biological father abandoned the child or was not fit to assume his parental r

  • Harrison v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucy K. Henry Jarrard & Walker, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1319

    The trial court properly allowed the state to question the co-defendant about defendant's contact with the victim before trial since evidence of an attempt to influence a witness is always admis