• Martis v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-30
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samir J. Patel Public Defender's Office, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Richard A. Hull, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A0445

    Corroborated information from the confidential informant provided probable cause for issuance of a search wa

  • Wilder v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael O. Horgan, Washington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis C. Sanders, District Attorney, Kevin R. Majeska and Rindi L. Harbeson, Assistant District Attorneys, Thomson, for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A0059

    The trial court erred in sentencing the defendant as a recidivist, since he had a pending motion for new trial on his prior conviction and, therefore, his prior conviction was not

  • Cowart v. Widener

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles C. Stebbins III Warlick, Tritt, Stebbins & Murray LLP, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John A. Davison, Amy R. Snell Fulcher Hagler LLP, Charles C. Mayers, Augusta, J. Edward Allen Jr. Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, and Henry E. Scrudder Jr. Scrudder, Bass, Quillian, Horlock, Taylor & Lazarus LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: S09G1177

    The plaintiffs did not establish that the defendant's failure to render the decedent aid proximately caused his death from natural causes, since they produced no evidence, expert or otherwise, on th

  • Bryant v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David L. Whitman, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Christa L. Kirk District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A0970

    The trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion to sever charges related to a rape and burglary from his eight other burglary charges, since all of the charges against him clearly show

  • Reynolds Properties, Inc. v. Bickelmann

    Publication Date: 2009-11-06
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristine R. Tarrer, Eatonton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas P. Allen III Martin Snow LLP, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: Ned Blumenthal Weissman, Nowak, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A09A1164

    A realty was not entitled to a commission where the buyers and sellers agreed to terminate the real estate sales contract and to release all parties from their responsibil

  • Hubbard v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Rasnick, Manchester, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, John M. Caldwell, Assistant District Attorney, LaGrange, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Reggie A. Lampkin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S09A1235

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the defendant's motion to remove a prospective juror, who knew the victim's family from seeing them at local churches and who went to the fune

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  • Encompass Inc. Co. of Amer. v. Friedman

    Publication Date: 2009-08-14
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carrie O. Lowe and Melissa C. Patton Webb, Zschunke, Miller & Dikeman LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey S. Vaughan Royal & Vaughn, and Eugene C. Brooks IV, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A0144

    The plaintiff failed to file her suit for breach of contract, bad faith and bad faith attorneys' fees, arising after water damage and mold infested air ducts and walls of her home as the result of m

  • Artis v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-08-07
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David S. West West & Corvelli, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming,, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, and Deborah D. Wellborn District Attorney's Office, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1377

    The firearms discovered in a vehicle in which the defendant was a passenger was admissible as part of the res g

  • Whatley v. Terry

    Publication Date: 2008-10-17
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S08A1076

    The defendant could not show prejudice from the state's failure to give him an audio recording of an eyewitness's statements, in which the eyewitness gave contradictory statements regarding