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  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, and W. Scott Brannen, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0894

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the videotape of the victim's forensic interview, since the interviewer developed rapport with the child, did not attempt to influence the c

  • Bauman v. Humphries

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David C. Cole, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Allen W. Bodiford, Stockbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1096

    The trial court erred in incarcerating the appellant based only upon a letter from opposing counsel asserting that she had not complied with the terms of a prior

  • Georgia Dept. of Human Resources v. Gamble

    Publication Date: 2009-05-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Mark J. Cicero, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Willie J. Gamble, Atlanta, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: A09A0315

    The trial court lacked authority to modify the terms of a child support order during a civil contempt procee

  • Nash v. Compass Bank

    Publication Date: 2009-04-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard J. Storrs, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Sara L. Doyle and Allen A. Hendrick Holland & Knight LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2374

    The appellee showed that the partially completed office park at issue sold for its true value of $2.6 during a foreclosure sale, after the appellant defaulted on a $3.5M

  • Haugabook v. Crisler

    Publication Date: 2009-04-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Jerome Strickland and Christopher B. Jarrard Jones, Cork & Miller LLP, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Edward Allen Jr., Jeffrey W. DeLoach Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, and F. Gregory Melton Davis & Melton PC, Dalton, for appellees.
    Case Number: A08A0688

    The doctrine of money had and received fits the facts of this case in which the plaintiff's son-in-law borrowed $1M from the plaintiff to cover fictitious settlement proceeds t the defendants from a

  • Killings v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-04-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John P. Rutkowski, Atlanta, and Romin V. Alavi Plichta, Alavi & Assocs., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jewel C. Scott, District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2289

    The victim identified the defendant as one of two men, who robbed him of $50 to $60 at gun

  • Carter v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fred A. Lane Jr., District Attorney, and Ferdinand M. Viscuse, Assistant District Attorney, Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2322

    The trial court did not err in refusing to admit a properly authenticated motion to suppress, which contained a statement that the defendant did not reside with his girlfriend in a home containing a

  • Vines v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin A. Davis Jr. The Davis Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Griffin, and Robert W. Smith Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2176

    The evidence did not support the defendant's conviction for possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute, since officers found no scales or drug paraphernalia and no witness testified that the

  • Morton v. Glynn County Bd. of Tax Assessors

    Publication Date: 2008-12-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
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    Case Number: A08A1499; A08A1500; A08A1501

    The county board of tax assessors did not improperly include an intangible benefit in assessing the appellants' Sea Island properties' fair market value, since the board based its appraisals

  • Wester v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-11-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
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    Case Number: A08A1286

    The trial court erroneously sentenced the defendant as a recidivist under the state's general recidivist statute, O.C.G.A. § 17-10-7, instead of the specific recidivist statute applicable