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  • Pitts v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric A. Ballinger, Canton, and Louis M. Turchiarelli, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Samuel K. Barger, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1621

    A juvenile court judge had subject matter jurisdiction over a felony criminal case pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 15-1-9.1 b 2, after she responded to an intra-county judicial request for assis

  • Glisson v. Rooms to Go

    Publication Date: 2004-12-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Krannert Riddle Callaway, Braun, Riddle & Hughes PC, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert K. Kardeman, Alpharetta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A04A0977

    The employee sustained an economic i when she used her accrued sick and vacation leave for the period of time she lost from work due to her work-related i

  • Webb v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Walton County Pub. Defender, Monroe, for Webb. William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Jeffrey L. Foster, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for the state.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A04A0860; A04A0861

    The defendant was not entitled to the lessor of two punishments under the rule of lenity, because his convictions for child molestation and sexual battery were both fel

  • In the Interest of K. E. P.

    Publication Date: 2004-10-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Vaknin, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard L. Waters Jr., Robert C. Richardson Jr. and Alfred J. Powell Jr., Camilla, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1076

    Evidence that the mother did not establish a bond with the child, failed to visit her for over a year and a half, paid no support and was living with a man who had a history of violent behavior and

  • In the Interest of A. C. O.

    Publication Date: 2004-10-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent D. Sowerby, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and James A. Chamberlin Jr., Brunswick, for appellee. Other party representation: Dorothy R. Avera, Brunswick.
    Case Number: A04A1425

    The mother and the father's failure to maintain a relationship with their children, support their children, complete a parenting class or get counseling to deal with domestic violence and alcohol ab

  • Shackelford v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-10-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucy K. Henry and Christopher J. Walker III Carey, Jarrard & Walker, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason J. Deal, District Attorney, Alison W. Toller and Lindsey H. Burton, Assistant District Attorneys, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2173

    The defendant failed to make a prima facie showing of justification, which was necessary for admission of evidence of the victim's prior violent

  • Hough v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monte K. Davis, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Stokely, Solicitor General, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1970

    The trial court improperly sentenced the defendant on both counts of a two-count accusation of DUI-less safe driver and per se DUI because they arose from the same conduct and statutory double jeopa

  • Ouellet v. Tillitski

    Publication Date: 2004-09-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Malcolm K. Sullivan and Michael A. Dillon, Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael J. Gorby and Christine A. Carson Gorby, Reeves, Peters & Burns PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A04A1271

    The defendants were entitled to immunity from all of the plaintiff's claims under the child abuse reporting statute, since the undisputed evidence showed that the defendants had reasonable cause to

  • Rehberger v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: August F. Siemon III, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Thomas R. McBerry, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0360

    The defendant could not attack his sentence as void since that issue was decided adversely to him in a prior proce

  • Cistola v. Daniel

    Publication Date: 2004-04-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Grimes Lefkoff, Duncan, Grimes & Miller, Atlanta, for Cistola. Robert K. Woo Jr. King & Spalding, Atlanta, and Frederick E. Link Hartness & Link, Gainesville, for Daniel and others. Frank Armstrong III Stewart, Melvin & Frost, Gainesville, for Odegaard and others.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A2482; A03A2483

    The defendants were not entitled to a directed verdict on the plaintiff's fraud claim arising from his execution of a "corrective" quitclaim deed at the request of the defendants' real estate agent