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  • In the Interest of P. L. S. D.

    Publication Date: 2005-08-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua J. Smith, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip F. Woodward and Bruce A. Kling, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0843

    The mother continued to use illegal drugs, was unable to keep a job and faced criminal sanctions on drug-related ch

  • Marlowe v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-08-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Public Defender, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Jeffrey L. Foster Foster & Hanks, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1633

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that a defendant who commits multiple crimes the course of a continuous crime spree may be convicted once for possession of a firearm

  • State v. Durr

    Publication Date: 2005-08-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry E. Morgan, Cobb Solicitor General, Jessica K. Moss, Chief Assistant Solicitor General, and HW. Nichols, Assistant Solicitor General, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roger J. Rozen, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0514

    If the campus police officer was in hot pursuit of the defendant when he left the campus, the defendant's subsequent arrest outside of that jurisdiction was p

  • Horne v. J. H. Harvey Co.

    Publication Date: 2005-08-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley M. Hannan Smith, Hannan & Parker OC, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher T. Ross Gardner, Willis, Sweat & Goldsmith, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0684

    The defendant was not entitled to summary judgment in a malicious prosecution case, because a jury issue remained as to whether the defendant acted with malice in prosecuting the plaintiff for depos

  • In Re Schoolcraft

    Publication Date: 2005-07-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. David Wolfe and Kathryn A. Westberry L. David Wolf P.C., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick D. Jaugstetter, Henry County Attorney, Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Blair D. Mahaffey, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0081

    The trial judge should have recused himself from the rule nisi he in which he found an attorney in criminal contempt for misleading the court in a bond he

  • Donnalley v. Sterling

    Publication Date: 2005-07-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carlton L. Kell Brock, Clay, Calhoun, Wilson & Rogers PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Mark D. Link, Eric J. Hertz, Houston D. Smith III Hertz, Link & Smith PC, Tucker, Wade K. Copeland, Richard M. Pierro Jr. and Margaret F. Blackwood Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A0054

    The decedent was not an intended third-party beneficiary of a rental contract between a public high school football coach and the YMCA where the boy drowned during a 3-day training

  • In the Interest of J. B.

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua J. Smith, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Richard K. Murray, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0250

    Evidence that the grandmother was found drunk, unresponsive and unable to care for her grandchild supported the juvenile court's order approving a nonreunification

  • Morris v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey H. Brickman, Acting District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0469

    The evidence, including the defendant's confession that he broke into a warehouse and stole computers out of a car, supported his convictions for burglary and entering an automobile with intent to c

  • State v. Massa

    Publication Date: 2005-07-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory R. Barton, Christopher L. Wynn, Solicitors General, and Jeffrey M. Gore Solicitor General's Office, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bobby G. New and John D. Thalhimer, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0704

    The evidence authorized the trial court to reject the officer's testimony that he could identify a very small amount of very small particles of what appeared to be plant material in a baggie that wa

  • Hart v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-05-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin L. Melton III, Hartwell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, Elberton, and Richard K. Bridgeman, Assistant District Attorney, Toccoa, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1997

    Trial counsels' decision not to raise the defendant's mental health in connection with his obstruction charge was based on trial strategy, since they intended to argue that defendant kicked the offi