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In the Interest of V.D.

Publication Date: 2010-04-16
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Earle J. Duncan III, Darien, for appellant.
for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kathryn A. Fox Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, and James A. Chamberlin Jr., Brunswick, for appellee.
Case Number: A09A1600

Some evidence showing that the father was unfit supported the judgment finding the child deprived and awarding DFACS temporary cu

Davis v. State

Publication Date: 2010-04-16
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Doyle, John J.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lance D. Dutton Public Defender's Office, Cartersville, for appellant.
for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Richard A. Hull, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
Case Number: A10A0605

The trial court properly denied the defendant's motion to suppress marijuana found in his car during a traffic stop, because the officer asked for consent to search defendant's car nearly contempora

In the Interest of D.S.

Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jan A. Wheeler, Assistant Public Defender, Decatur, and Jimmonique R. Rodgers Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Stephen J. Pearsall, Assistant District Attorney-Juvenile Division, and Elisabeth G. MacNamara, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
Case Number: A09A2158

The evidence sufficiently supported the juvenile court's finding of kidnapping, including the asportation element, because minor forced the victim into an isolated yard behind an abandoned

Dawson v. State

Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Bernes, Debra
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
Case Number: A09A2271

Defendant's ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel claim was barred because he failed to raise the issue after being granted an out of time appeal and new counsel was appo

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In the Interest of T.C.

Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Wiggins, Ringgold, for appellant.
for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Jennifer E. Hildebrand, LaFayette, Steven M. Ellis, Chickamauga, and Justin G. Woodward, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellee.
Case Number: A09A2243

An order extending DFACS' temporary custody of the children, which the juvenile court entered three days after DFACS filed the termination petition, did not preclude a subsequent finding that clear

Grant v. State

Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent D. Sowerby, Brunswick, for appellant.
for defendant: Clara E. Bucci Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia, Pooler, and Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Woodbine, for appellee.
Case Number: A09A2040

The Court vacated the order denying the defendant's motion to set aside the denial of his application for the return of $60K in seized cash and remanded the case for required findings under Cambron

State v. Biddle

Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, and Leopold F. Joh, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellant.
for defendant: George A. Waters, Richmond Hill, and Robert R. McLendon IV, Blakely, for appellee.
Case Number: A09A2283

The language of the indictment charged the defendant with first-degree vehicular homicide and was sufficient to inform the defendant that he must defend against that

Preval v. State

Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sheueli C. Wang Georgia Public Defender Standards Council Appellate Division, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, Alicia C. Gant and Thomas L. Williams, Assistant District Attorneys, McDonough, for appellee.
Case Number: A09A2384

The state used the same 17.54 pounds of seized marijuana to prove that Preval both possessed a trafficking weight of marijuana and manufactur

Greenwood Homes Inc. v. Regions Bank

Publication Date: 2010-03-19
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John A. Christy and Philip R. Green Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Jennifer B. Moore and Michael J. C. Shaw Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: A09A1631

An appraiser's limited consideration of two non-market transactions did not invalidate his valuation of certain real property, because he adjusted the price upwards for those transactions and placed