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  • Banks v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles E. Day, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Jeffrey L. Foster, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0999

    The victim's prior unprosecuted rape accusations were inadmissible in the absence of evidence that the accusations were

  • Tecumseh Prods. Co. Inc. v. Rigdon

    Publication Date: 2001-08-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David L. Gordon and C. Todd Van Dyke Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jack J. Helms Jr. Helms & Helms PC, Homerville, and James D. Hudson, Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1484

    Defendant should have known about its employee's violent propensity because defendant previously fired the employee for his involvement in an altercation with his super

  • Wiley v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin C. Jones Webb, Stuckey & Lindsey LLC, Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Sandra A. Graves, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1026

    Defendant's own testimony that he did not commit the crimes precluded him from asserting an entrapment de

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monte K. Davis, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn R. Keyes, Solicitor General, and Theresa S. Starkes, Assistant Solicitor General, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0576

    Defense counsel waived defendant's right to automatic discharge and dismissal by seeking multiple leaves of absence and consenting to have defendant's trial date reset outside of the allowable time p

  • City of Columbus v. Barngrover

    Publication Date: 2001-08-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eugene H. Polleys Jr., City Attorney, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gary O. Bruce Page, Scrantom, Harris & Chapman PC, and James D. Patrick Jr., Columbus, for appellees. Other party representation: James E. Humes II Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis & Rothschild, Columbus.
    Case Number: A01A0341

    The city's exercise of dominion and control over a drainage system by accessing and repairing the lines with city funds, gave rise to a duty to maintain the system, even though the system was locate

  • CGU Life Ins. Co. v. Singer Asset Fin. Co. LLC

    Publication Date: 2001-08-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael D. Hostetter Nall & Miller LLP, Atlanta, for CGU Life Ins. Co. Joseph S. Carr and Catrina C. Creswell Kritzer & Levick PC, Atlanta, for Singer Asset Finance Co.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A01A0798; A01A0799; A01A0800; A01A0801

    A non-assignment provision contained in a structured settlement agreement barred the sale and assignment of the structured settlement pay

  • Trammell v. Whetstone

    Publication Date: 2001-08-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George W. Weaver Weaver & Weaver, and Jeffrey L. Floyd, Jasper, for Trammell. Bryan C. Drost Little & Drost, and Robert K. Ballew, Blue Ridge, for Whetstone. David E. Ralston, Blue Ridge, for Elliott. Other party representation: Sherri L. Dillard-Doss, Oliver H. Doss Jr. Doss & Doss, Blue Ridge.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A01A0320; A01A0321

    Evidence that a private roadway across defendant's property was between 12 and 15 feet, that plaintiffs they kept the roadway open and in repair for at least seven years and that defendant had notic

  • Page v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee W. Fitzpatrick, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Scott T. Poole, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0735

    Defendant's possession of a device commonly used to avoid theft detection sensors supported his conviction for possession of crime

  • Mathis v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. S. Lyons III and Paul W. David, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sheryl B. Jolly, Solicitor General, and Elizabeth K. Brooks, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1570

    Evidence that defendant slapped an off-duty officer when he attempted to arrest her for refusing to leave a bar after closing supported her convi for obstru

  • McCall v. Henry Med. Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Curtis A. Thurston Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert L. Goldstucker Nall, Miller, Owens, Hocutt & Howard, Atlanta, Rod G. Meadows and Bonnie L. Baker Meadows & Futch PC, Stockbridge, for appellee. Other party representation: Jack S. Schroder Jr., Kevin E. Grady, Angela T. Burnette Alston & Bird, Atlanta, and Mark L. Stuckey Law Offices of Charles L. Ruffin, Macon.
    Case Number: A01A0586

    A m center was not automatically immune under O.C.G.A. § 31-7-132 a from plaintiff's claim that it was negligent in granting m privileges to the surgeon who operated on plaintiff on the