• Giraldo v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-06-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William G. Quinn III, Decatur, for Giraldo. Stephen T. Maples, Bernard Knight and Karlyn Skall, Decatur, for Brutus. J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Kristin M. Childers and Gregory K. Schwarz, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee. Other party representation: William C. Puckett Jr. and William G. Quinn III, Decatur.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A00A2037; A00A2038

    Police are authorized to retain non-Schedule I drugs confiscated in previous investigations and use them in reverse-sting operations so long as the origin of the drugs is documented and forfeiture p

  • Lewis v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-06-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Caprice R. J. Small and Dwight L. Thomas, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy and Gregory K. Schwarz, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A0409

    Based on the evidence, the jury was entitled to disbelieve defendant's claim that he abandoned his participation in an attempted robbery of a group of golfers by walking to water cooler to get a

  • American Global Dev. Group Inc. v. Sasser & Weatherford Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard K. O'Donnell Menden & O'Donnell, Roswell, and G. Brian Raley The Raley Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Donna W. Howell James S. S. Howell Law Offices, and Dennis K. Calhoun, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A0007

    A separate created by the defendant to purchase property and build a hotel was entitled to a directed verdict in the plaintiff's suit for breach of a real estate contract because the separate

  • Biggs v. Heriot

    Publication Date: 2001-05-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James S. Teague Jr. Wilson, Brock & Irby, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Theodore W. Robinson Carey, Jarrard & Walker, Gainesville, for appellees.

    Case Number: A01A0644

    The trial court erred in granting the plaintiffs' application for final judgment on an arbitration award without giving defendants an opportunity to object and to present evidence in support of thei

  • In the Interest of V.S.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Moody, Marietta, 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, Sanders B. Deen and Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Roger L. Curry, Austell, and John P. Cheeley Cheeley & Joyner LLC, Duluth.

    Case Number: A01A0382

    The evidence did not support the termination of the putative father's parental rights where DFACS filed the termination petition only seven months after his child's birth and did not implement a reu

  • Carter v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft III, Stockbridge, for Carter. James W. Bradley, Jonesboro, for Freeman. Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Jack S. Jennings, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A01A0010; A01A0011

    The state's explanation for striking a prospective juror whose friends lived in defendants' apartment complex supported the trial court's denial of defendants' Batson chal

  • The Best Jewelry Mfg. Co. Inc. v. ARC Sec. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael N. Weathersby and Roger C. Wilson Evert & Weathersby, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Malcolm Smith Lokey & Smith, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Sewell K. Loggins and Jennifer E. Theobold Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins LLP, David M. Brown and Jason S. Bell Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A01A0433

    The plaintiff's suit arising out of a jewelry theft at an airport security checkpoint was barred by the 2-year time limitation on claims for loss or damage to baggage which was expressly incorporat

  • In the Interest of A.W.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-04
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa G. Bowen, Blackshear, 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 Michael D. Devane, Waycross, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A0358

    No clear and convincing evidence supported the termination of the mother's parental rights where the mother complied with reunification plan by maintaining a clean home for more than a year, obtain

  • Giraldo v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-04-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William G. Quinn III, Decatur, for Giraldo. Stephen T. Maples, Bernard Knight and Karlyn Skall, Decatur, for Brutus. J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Kristin M. Childers and Gregory K. Schwarz, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee. Other party representation: William C. Puckett Jr. and William G. Quinn III, Decatur.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A00A2037; A00A2038

    Police are authorized to retain non-Schedule I drugs confiscated in previous investigations and use them in reverse-sting operations so long as the origin of the drugs has been documented and forfei

  • In the Interest of T.R.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-27
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Epps, Gray, 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 Philip B. Spivey, Milledgeville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A2492

    Evidence that mother was untruthful during an alcohol abuse assessment, that her younger children were in foster care as a result of her arrest and that she smelled of alcohol at the time of her arr