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  • Whitman v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-06-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Rutledge Public Defender's Office, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, District Attorney, and Suhirjahaan Morehead District Attorney's Office, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0425

    Evidence of a pending charge admitted as similar transaction evidence in the defendant's trial for misdemeanor theft by receiving did not violate his Sixth Ame right to testify or his Fifth Am

  • Stryker v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-04-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth J. Rajotte, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles A. Spahos, Solicitor General, and Gilbert A. Crosby Solicitor General's Office, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2124

    The defendant had a friend leave in the defendant's girlfriend's car after an officer arrested the girlfriend for shoplifting and said he need to check the car's registr

  • Patterson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George H. Law III Whitmer & Law, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason J. Deal, District Attorney, Gregory E. Radics, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, and Lee Darraugh, District Attorney, Dawsonville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2100

    Smith v. State, 257 Ga. App. 88, 92 4 & 5 570 SE2d 400 2002 is overruled to the extent that Smith allows an expert to give an opinion on a witness's credibility or to express an opinion on the u

  • Heller v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: E. Jerrell Ramsey, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Jan Kennedy and Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorneys, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0896

    The state proved that the defendant possessed drugs seized from his house an

  • Spence v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie G. Patterson, LaGrange, for appellant.
    for defendant: Louis J. Kirby, Solicitor, LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1047

    The trial court should have quashed the charge of attempting to elude an officer where state did not allege in the accusation that defendant was eluding an officer or police vehicle when he failed