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  • Pabey v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-08-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. Perry, St. Marys, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, and Jacquelyn L. Johnson, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0299

    The defendant was entitled to summary judgment in the civil forfeiture action brought against her under the RICO statute because the state's evidence was insuffi

  • In the Interest of V.E.H.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jean M. Kutner Kutner & Bloom, Atlanta, Michelle G. Lundy and Catherine B. Sanderson Lundy & Sanderson, Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Brenda A. Raspberry, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and James T. Chafin III, McDonough, for appellee. Other Party Representation: William D. Patten Jr., Stockbridge.
    Case Number: A03A0288

    Termination of the mother's parental rights was not warranted where DFACS presented no evidence of the mother's current circumstances or present unfi

  • Guzman v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles D. Joyner and James R. Little, Buford, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Lawrenceville, District Attorney, Phil Wiley and Tracie J. Hobbs, Assistant District Attorneys, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0255

    Defendant, who served alcohol to a minor and allowed the minor to drive his vehicle while intoxicated, was a party to the crime of vehicular homicide after the minor lost control of the car, killing

  • Wright v. Pine Hills Country Club Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl V. Walters, Thomas E. Pujadas Walters, Davis, Meeks & Pujadas, Ocilla, and Robert E. Sherrell Jay, Sherrell, Smith & Braddy PC, Fitzgerald, for Wright. Mary M. Katz Chambless, Higdon & Carson, Macon, for Pine Hills Country Club Inc. William P. Langdale III Langdale & Vallotton LLP, Valdosta, Craig N. Cowart Miller, Cowart, Cates & Howe LLP, Macon, for Newspaper Holdings Inc. E. B. Wilkin Jr., Perry & Walters, Albany, for State Farm.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A0178; A03A0179

    The plaintiff presented no expert testimony contradicting the defendants' evidence that a newspaper reporter was not noticeably intoxicated when the defendants served her al

  • Reeves v. Mohawk Factoring Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keven K. Kenison Kenison & Dudley, and Joel F. Geer, Greenville, S.C., for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard M. Howe and Lawrence A. Silverman Howe & Assocs. PC, Alpharetta, for appellee. Other party representation: John Powers The Carpet Place, Lawrenceville.
    Case Number: A03A0371

    A jury question remained as to whether the plaintiff was entitled to collect the balance remaining on the purchase of certain carpet products sold to defendant on account by plaintiff's parent co

  • Byrd v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Randolph Jeffery John W. Spence PC, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Bryan H. Frost, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0643

    Te fact that an expert's opinion was based on hearsay went to the weight, not the admissibility of the evi

  • Gonzales v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Darel C. Mitchell, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Rodney K. Miles, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0362

    Evidence that the defendant lay in wait for the victim and shot him as soon as he saw his car approaching supported the jury's finding that the defendant shot the victim in anger, rather than in sel

  • Benson v. McMillan

    Publication Date: 2003-05-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Roger Land, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glynn R. Stepp, Lawrenceville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0241

    Evidence supported the trial court's finding that an employee negligently caused her former employer $10,995 in damages when she failed to prepare her employer's tax information for 3-4

  • Stogisavlijevic v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-02-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank K. Martin and John T. Martin The Martin Firm, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, and Mark C. Post, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2027

    The defendant was not entitled to a mistrial after the victim alluded to the fact that defendant had previously sold drugs since the victim's testimony was not responsive to the state's question and

  • Benton v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-02-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Land Newton County Public Defender's Office, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Layla V. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1883

    Since there was no evidence that the defendant and the victim struggled or that defendant shot the victim in self-defense, evidence of the victim's prior violent acts was inadmi