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  • State v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2007-08-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and John A. Tully District Attorney's Office, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clarence R. Patton, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0831

    The arresting officers had specific, articulable facts sufficient to give rise to a reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct to conduct a brief investigative stop of the defendant's vehicle, based o

  • Patton v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-08-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Diana L. Davis, McDonough, and Leigh S. Schrope Georgia Public Defenders Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and John A. Pipkin III, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0657

    The untested informant's tip provided probable cause to support an investigatory detention, since the tip predicted some aspects of the defendant's future beh

  • Cuyuch v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-08-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carlton C. Carter, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Samuel K. Barger, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0782

    Absent a motive to mislead, a translator's statements should be regarded as statements of the witnesses themselves, not double he

  • State v. Rheinlander

    Publication Date: 2007-08-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shawn E. LaGrua, Solicitor General, and Jessica K. Harris, Assistant Solicitor General, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Marny J. Heit The Chestney-Hawkins Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0601

    The arresting officer had probable cause to stop the defendant based on the defendant's actions in almost hitting the officer's vehicle and then suddenly changing

  • State v. Venzen

    Publication Date: 2007-08-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard W. Shelton, Solicitor, and Sandra K. Guest, Assistant Solicitor General, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John D. Holt, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0325

    Officers were authorized to enter a residence after the defendant opened the door holding lit marijuana ciga

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl J. Spence, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rosanna M. Szabo, Solicitor, and Liza M. Moultrie Solicitor General's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A1356

    Two breath tests taken 11 minutes apart were taken sequentially for the purposes of O.C.G.A. § 40-

  • Hendry v. Wells

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent T. Gresham, Atlanta, and Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for Hendry and others. Thomas T. Tate Andersen, Tate, Mahaffey & McGarity PC, Lawrenceville, James K. Quillian, Merle R. Arnold III and William M. Droze Troutman Sanders for Wells and others.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A07A0059; A07A0060

    A limited partner may bring a claim against a partne where the primary injury alleged is to the individual plaintiffs, rather than the partne

  • Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee v. Center for a Sustainable Coast

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, James D. Coots, John E. Hennelly, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and James A. Chamberlin Jr., Brunswick, for Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee. Christopher K. DeScherer S. Envtl. Law Ctr., Stephen E. O'Day Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Mary M. Asbill Turner Envtl. Law Clinic, Atlanta, and Charles C. Smith Jr. Smith & Floyd, St. Mary's, for Center for a Sustainable Coast. Patricia T. Barmeyer King & Spalding, for Point Peter LLP. Other party representation: R. Todd Silliman King & Spalding, Julie V. Mayfield The Georgia Conservancy, Atlanta, Dana F. Braun Karsman, Brooks & Callaway PC, Frank J. Perch III, Andrew H. Ernst Hunter, MacLean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A07A0752; A07A0753; A07A0897; A07A0934

    The ALJ erred in requi he Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee Committee to consider or regulate any aspect of the developer's adjacent high land and upland residential development in consid

  • Felder v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Layla V. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0750

    The defendant, a jail detention officer, accepted $100 from an inmate in exchange for a handcuf

  • Sunlink Health Sys. Inc. v. Pettigrew

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas M. Burke Jr. Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglass K. Farrar Farrar & Hennesy, Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0817

    The plaintiff had equal knowledge of the accumulation of rainwater on the hospital's flat concrete entrance wa