Filter This View

  • Aguey-Zinsou v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-13
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Michael Maloof, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2324

    The responding officers had exigent circumstances to justify their warrantless entry into the defendant's apartment based on a 911 call that shots had been fired at his apartment complex and their o

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-13
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald R. Parker, Assistant Pub. Defender, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, Samuel M. Olmstead and Eric A. Collins District Attorney's Office, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2385

    The defendant's sentence on his guilty plea for trafficking cocaine was not facially illegal, since it did not exceed the statutory range permitted by O.C.G.A. § 16-13

  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-13
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg, Georgia Capital Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and David K. Getachew-Smith District Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A1777

    Evidence, including the defendant's own pretrial statement, in which he stated that he did not see the victim with a gun when he shot him and that he shot him by mistake, authorized the jury to rej

  • Reese v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-13
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rachel M. Williams, Public Defender, and Anthony S. Carter Public Defender's Office, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Eric C. Crawford, District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0344

    The trial court was not authorized to increase the defendant's sentence after he started servi

  • Goldstein v. Wells

    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael I. Fistel Jr. Holzer, Holzer & Cannon LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Tony G. Powers, Kimberly L. Myers Rogers & Hardin LLP, Michael R. Smith, Michael J. Cates, Dan S. McDevitt King & Spalding, James T. Mast, James K. Quillian and Jaime L. Theriot Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0068

    The Court of Appeals dismissed this shareholder derivative action, since the plaintiff shareholders failed to show that the directors suffered from an actual conflict of int

  • In the Interest of A. R.

    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tran H. Lankford Gary, Leshaw & Assocs., Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Elizabeth M. Williamson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Daniel C. Thomas, Covington, for appellee. Other party representation: Melissa A. Bruzzano, Covington.
    Case Number: A08A2411

    Service of deprivation petition on incarcerated father of three children at issue was not perfected pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 15-11-3

  • McBee v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura K. Willcox Ballinger & Assocs., Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joe W. Hendricks Jr., District Attorney, and David V. Rhoden District Attorney's Office, Ellijay, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A1937

    Officers found methamphetamine under the passenger seat where the defendant was sitting, as well as a syringe and brass knuckles in the defendant's pockets, and the defendant admitted giving a false

  • Griffis v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin G. Ryan, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., Solicitor General, and Angelique B. McClendon, Assistant Solicitor, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2244

    The defendant lay drag in the officer's presence-in a fast-food restaurant drive-thru line-in a manner, which could have caused injury to person or pro

  • Kline v. KDB Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-02-20
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Weinstock and Matthew W. Carlton Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason B. Schwartz Temple, Strickland, Counts & Dinges, Decatur, Harvey S. Gray, Christopher M. Ziegler Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske LLP, Atlanta, Cheryl R. Reid and Richard A. Carothers Carothers & Mitchell, Buford, for appellant. Michael Connor Sr. and Michael Connor Jr., Mableton, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: A08A1594

    Evidence that the arresting officer had probable cause and exigent circumstances to lawfully arrest the plaintiff without a warrant for criminal trespass at a bar and restaurant precluded the plaint

  • Kelley v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-02-13
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela B. Dillon, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A1702

    The then 8-year-old victim identified the defendant as the man, who approached her while she was playing behind a vacant house, told her to ' "Give me head," ' and put his ' "private" ' in her