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  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gabrielle A. Pittman, Michael L. Edwards and Jennifer Public Defender's Office, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Isabel M. Pauley, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2426

    The trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion for a mistrial after the state introduced evidence of an independent act placing his character at issue without complying with Uniform Superio

  • Herring v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-10-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gabrielle A. Pittman and Jennifer R. Burns Public Defenders Office, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, David T. Lock, Chief Assistant District Attorney, and Gregory M. McConnell, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A1366

    The trial court erred in allowing the state to elicit evidence that the defendant used pornography for masturbation purposes, since the state produced no evidence showing that the defendant viewed c

  • Pike v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John A. Nuckolls, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, H. Maddox Kilgore and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2121

    Defendant's consent to search his locked bedroom was not tainted by the officers entry into the home with the permission of defendant's brother who own

  • Shields v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-12-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vicki E. Carter, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, and Anna E. Watkins, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1312

    Defendant was not entitled to mistrial after trial court allowed the victim to testify, despite the state's failure to provide defendant with her current address and phone number where defendant nev

  • Liberty Ins. Corp. v. Ferguson

    Publication Date: 2003-11-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Burke B. Johnson Carter & Ansley, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: H. Emily George George, Bartles & Wallach, Forest Park, Gino L. Montoya Mabry & McClelland LLP, Craig R. White Donahue, Hoey & Skedsvold LLC, Scott P. Archer and J. Daran Burns Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Todd S. Colarusso George, Bartles & Wallach, Forest Park, and Robert M. Darroch Mabry & McClelland LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A03A0950

    Since O.C.G.A. § 33-24-45 regulates the cancellation of automobile insurance policies, the plaintiff could not rely on O.C.G.A. § 33-24-7 or cases construing that statute to retrospectively void a p

  • McCondichie v. Groover, Henry Superior Court.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Robert Oliver and Anne M. Zavala-Moushey Oliver & Winkle PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: William A. White Smith, Welch & Brittain, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0222

    The parties' engaged in unlawful conduct when they agreed that defendant would use his employee discount to purchase stock for the plaintiff during an initial public off