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  • Tiller v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven A. Cook, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Laura J. Murphee and Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0270

    The officer's prolonged detention of driver and search of vehicle after valid traffic stop was illegally based on hearsay evidence from an unknown ti

  • In the Interest of J.J.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mathias Skowranek, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Stephanie B. Hope, Special Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and James T. Chaffin III, McDonough, for appellee. Other Party Representation: William D. Patten Jr., Stockbridge.
    Case Number: A03A0231

    Termination of the mother's parental rights was in the children's best interest where their mother had been incarcerated for 15 out of 24 months, was subject to extradition on out-of-state charges a

  • Pearson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Walton County Public Defender, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Jeffrey L. Foster, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0090

    The armed defendant bound the victim with duct tape and forced him into the back of his ve

  • Terrell v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Alan A. Cook, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paige R. Whitaker, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02P0643

    Recent United States Supreme Court case law did not require the state to allege statutory aggravating circumstances in the defendant's indictment or have a grand jury consider statutory aggrav

  • Morris v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-09-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas L. Cole Cole & Fleming PC, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Michael K. Dennard, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1517

    Defendant's contention that the state failed to make a prima facie showing of racial discrimination became moot when he proffered his purportedly race-neutral reasons for striking a challenged

  • In the Interest of N. G. and A. W. B.

    Publication Date: 2002-08-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ann N. Garner, Stone Mountain, 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 Robert G. Nardone, Avondale Estate, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1322

    The mother's failure to comply with her reunification plan established her lack of proper parental care and co

  • Canal Ins. Co. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-08-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank R. McKay Sartain, McKay & Crowell, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard W. Hendrix and Michael A. Sullivan Finch, McCranie, Brown, Hendrix & Sullivan, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1373

    A worker's compensation insurer could not prove that the injured employee was fully and completely compensated when he settled his third-party tort action because the insurer did not intervene in th

  • In the Interest of J.M.

    Publication Date: 2002-08-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph I. Carter, Tifton, 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, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and Melanie Barbee-Cross Simpson & Cross, Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1450

    The juvenile court erred in extending DFACS' temporary custody of children where there was no evidence that any reasons for their initial removal from their mother's home existed at the time

  • Cohen v. Target Corp.

    Publication Date: 2002-07-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert K. Prater, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott D. Delius Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske, Thomas E. Magill Magill & Atkinson and Eric S. Proser Hamilton, Westby, Antonowich & Anderson, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Alexander Gordon Cobb, Grabbe, Spiller & Irwin, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A02A0703

    Because the plaintiff provided no evidence that the defendants negligently constructed or maintained a concrete incline in front of their premises, that the incline violated any building code or tha

  • Phillips v. South West Mechanical Contractors Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas R. Powell, Debra K. Haan Hinton & Powell, and Scott E. Tinnon, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William P. Tinkler Jr., Decatur, Robert F. Dangle Price, Pyles, Dangle, Parmer & Rooks, Carrollton, Charles A. Wiley Jr. and James A. Rice Jr. Fain, Major, Wiley & Brennan PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A1935

    Plaintiffs' wrongful death claim arising out of an accident involving an stolen ATV and a disabled dump failed because there was no evidence that defendant was negligent in leaving the disable