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  • In the Interest of G.P.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carlton K. Nelson III, Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ralph M. Walke, District Attorney, and Judson Green IV, Assistant District Attorney, Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0288

    Circumstantial evidence that the juvenile tried to pawn an identical compact disc player shortly after the burglary was sufficient to support his delinquency adjudication since that evidence was inc

  • Brinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chris E. Ambrose and Douglas K. Silvis Silvis & Ambrose PC, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Mark E. Mitchell, Assistant District Attorney, Thomasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2156

    The was no evidence that the victim's mother, stepfather and a ch tness conspired to prejudice defendant when they testified that he had been in prison, was on probation and had kidnapped the c

  • In the Interest of C.G.B.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard R. Schlueter, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Dennis R. Dunn, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, and Albert A. Myers III Mumford, Myers & Mooney, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Jeremy A. Moulton Moulton & Massey, Conyers.
    Case Number: A99A2231

    The trial court presumably disregarded inadmissible hearsay evidence from a DFACS caseworker's notes and the court-appointed special advocate's reports when it determined that termination of the mot

  • Riley v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven E. Phillips, Public Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2291

    The defendant was entitled to an in camera inspection of the state's entire file to determine whether it contained evidence that one of the state's witnesses was arrested as a suspect in the same ag

  • Sullivan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel C. Chapman III, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Thomas R. McBerry, Assistant, District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2213

    Although th ndant contended that many people had a motive to rob the victim, the fact that the victim was a drug dealer was not admissible because it did not raise a reasonable inference that t

  • Department of Transp. v. Arnold

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, R.O. Lerer, Assistant Attorney General, Donna W. Howell James S.S. Howell Law Offices, Robert W. Diggs Weiner, Yancey & Dempsey and Mark Weinstein, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Luke F. Gore Gore, Lee & Curry, Austell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0646

    Owner of condemned property could recover for his post-taking business losses because he showed that he had to relocate his chiropractic clinic after the DOT condemned most of his parkin

  • Szurovy v. Olderman

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank J. Beltran and Charlotte K. Perrell Beltran & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel S. Reinhardt, Carmie L. McCurry and Toni A. Friess Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A1919

    Plaintiff could not show that her attorney could have negotiated a better divorce settlement absent evidence of her ex-husband's financial status, the value of the marital estate or the amount of al

  • In the Interest of L.H., N.H. & W.H.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James K. Knight Jr., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso and Sanders D. Deen, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: David C. Butler, Kenneth R. Croy and Reagan W. Dean, Marietta.
    Case Number: A99A1893

    Evidence that the father had not seen his children or provided a drug assessment in four years, owed more than $15,000 in child support and had no home of his own supported the termination of his p

  • Mullinax v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and James L. Wright III, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2212

    The state adequately informed the defendant of its intention to introduce his prior convictions in aggravation of his sentence when it orally discussed his prior record and the recidivist statute wi

  • Wadkins v. Smallwood

    Publication Date: 2000-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Patrick Jr., Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald W. Self Self, Mullins PC, Columbus, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A0283

    Evidence that the landlords failed to maintain a battery-operated smoke detector in their tenant's apartment was not admissible in the suit involving the death of a 3-year-old when the apartment cau