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  • McWhorter v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher A. Townley, Rossville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, LaFayette, and Michael J. Moeller, Assistant District Attorney, Summerville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1252

    The trial court did not err in sentencing the defendant to 30 years on her ction for conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, since the Georgia Controlled Substances Act provides that a perso

  • Moreland v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1301

    The defendant shot the victim in the chest after he and his accomplice approached the victim's car to ste

  • Hoffman v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeremy E. Citron, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry E. Morgan, Solicitor General, and Latonia P. Hines, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1419

    The defendant smelled of alcohol, he had bloodshot eyes, he admitted drinking a beer and he refused to submit to field sobriety

  • Clark v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Gerald L. Henderson, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0440

    The defendant was not entitled to charges on lesser included offenses where the evidence showed completion of the greater c

  • King v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Morgan III, Abbeville, and James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, and Cheri L. Nichols, Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1917

    The state failed to prove that the robbery by sudden snatching occurred in Ben Hill c

  • Parker v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas and Caprice R. Jenerson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Ruth A. Pawlak, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0986

    The defendant shot the victim twice in the head at close range and started a fire in the bedroom of her home where her body was lo

  • McPetrie v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmy D. Berry, Marietta, for McPetrie. James S. Anderson Clarke & Anderson PC, Atlanta, for Paschal. Debra H. Bernes and Nancy I. Jordan, Marietta, for Raines. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amy H. McChesney and C. Lance Cross, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A03A1238; A03A1239; A03A1240

    Defendants had no legal authority to detain and bind the victim who allegedly stole items from their busin

  • Smith v. Local Union 1863, Int'l Longshoremen's Assoc. of Clerks and Checkers

    Publication Date: 2003-03-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter D. Adams, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carl G. Fulp III Fulp & Holt, Valdosta, and Donald E. Pinaud Jr. Kattman & Pinaud, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2397

    The trial court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's suit under the Georgia Equal Employment for Persons With Disabilities Code where the allegations in his complaint virtually tracked parts of the

  • Aliffi v. Liberty County Sch. District

    Publication Date: 2003-02-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey W. Lasky and John L. Vaught Ashman, Lasky & Cooper, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Billy N. Jones Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, and Fred S. Clark Clark & Clark, Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A2408

    A teacher was officially immune from liability for the death of plaintiffs' ter when a large roll of paper fell on her where the teacher was exercising her discretionary authority in sending th

  • Montgomery v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-01-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Sexton and Giles D. Sexton Sexton & Sexton, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker and Elisabeth G. Macnamara, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0162

    The state's failure to enter a nolle prosse on defendant's first indic before trying him on his second indic did not affect the validity of his convictions based on the second indic