Filter This View

  • State v. Causey

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Maria B. Golick, Dana J. Norman and William M. Clark, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Forrest K. Shealy, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1686, A00A1687

    Under the criteria for a second-tier stop, the arresting officers had reason to believe that defendant and an individual who got into defendant's car were involved in an attempt to break into cars i

  • Demetrios v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Drew Findling, Atlanta, Cris E. Schneider, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip C. Smith, District Attorney, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1766

    The evidence supported a psychotherapist's convictions for drugging, hypnotizing and sexually abusing several of his female pat

  • Runion v. Hofer

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert K. Prater, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles F. Peebles and Lane R. Frostbaum, Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1215

    Builders' failure to correct numerous construction defects in plaintiffs' new home, despite notice, supported jury's award of bad faith attorneys'

  • Middlebrooks v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-12-08
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1955

    Admission of hearsay testimony regarding victim's description of carjacking was harmless error since the testimony did not directly inculpate defe

  • In the Interest of U.B. and V.B.

    Publication Date: 2000-12-01
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carol Bacon, Pembroke, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Sherri R. McDonald Newton, Smith, Durden, Kaufold & Rice, Vidalia, for appellee. Other party representation: Joseph D. McGovern, Glennville, and James L. Johnston Sr., Statesboro.
    Case Number: A00A2185

    Evidence that the children were returned to DFCS following attempted reunification on two prior occasions supported the finding that further reunification services should not be pro

  • Grant v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-11-17
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1259

    Officer did not need articulable suspicion of criminality to approach and request to search defendant who fit police profile of a drug smu

  • Watts v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-11-17
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Jones King & King & Jones PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Kevin W. Drummond, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1084

    Videotapes seized during a s of defendant's residence were admissible based on the testimony of defendant's alleged common-law wife that she consented to the s

  • Heggs v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-11-17
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul W. David, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0899

    Because the defendant's indictment for rape did not allege that the victim was under 16 years old, child molestation was not a lesser included offense of the indicted

  • Clemmons v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2000-11-17
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lester Z. Dozier Jr. Dozier & Sikes LLC, Macon, and Charles M. Cork III Reynolds & McArthur, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas F. Jarriel Lane & Jarriel, Macon, Sherman E. Moody III, Macon, and Daniel Bullard IV, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1394

    Plaintiff assumed the risk of injury when he parked his car in the left lane of a busy highway just past a blind

  • In the Interest of N.A.

    Publication Date: 2000-11-10
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmy D. Plunkett, Thomson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denis C. Sanders, District Attorney, Thomson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1974

    Evidence that 12-year-old girl had sexual intercourse with at least two older teenage boys supported the finding that she committed the delinquent act of fornic