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  • Glidewell v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frederic D. Bright, District Attorney, Milledgeville, and Gregory L. Bushway, Assistant District Attorney, Gray, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0227

    Some slight evidence authorized the jury to conclude that the defendant acted from a sudden, violent and irresistible passion resulting from serious provocation when he killed his estranged wife aft

  • In the Interest of L. S.

    Publication Date: 2006-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: s Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Kathleen A. Giroux, Assistant Solicitor, Lyn K. Armstrong and Ayana C. Curry, Assistant District Attorneys, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0424

    The juvenile court erred in finding that it lacked jurisdiction to re-open the juvenile's case after another court determined that the juvenile was not competent to stand

  • Stinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason R. Clark, Conflict Defender, Hinesville, and Grayson P. Lane Public Defender's Office, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorney, and David A. Peterson District Attorney's Office, Brunswick, for appellee. Other party representation: James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Counsel and Leigh S. Schrope Georgia Public Defenders Standards Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A0274

    Defendants who elect to plead guilty and undergo alternative treatment in a Drug Court p are not entitled to a credit for time spent in treatment, if they are subsequently terminated from the

  • Phillips v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark R. Gaffney, Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1740

    Even if the trial court erred in compelling the defendant's wife to testify, there is no reasonable probability that the verdict would have been different in the absence of her similar transaction e

  • Henson v. Tucker

    Publication Date: 2006-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John J. Capo and Larry K. Butler Butler & Capo, Jasper, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Eugene B. Chambers Jr. Roach, Hasty & Geiger, Canton, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A1735

    The defendants did not acquire prescriptive title to the disputed 5.9 acres of land by building a driveway less than seven years before the plaintiffs filed their quiet title

  • Simon Property Group Inc. v. Benson

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca M. Lamberth, John L. Coalson Jr., Colin K. Kelly and Jay D. Bennett Alston & Bird, Atlanta, and Charles C. Clay, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John F. Salter Jr., Roy E. Barnes The Barnes Law Group LLC, Marietta, and Gary J. Toman Nation, Toman, Nutter & McKnight LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A2256

    The gift cards and certificates in question cannot be deemed abandoned under the Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act, since the defendant issued them less than five years prior the plaintiffs'

  • Valdosta Hotel Properties LLC v. White

    Publication Date: 2006-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven J. Misner Misner, Scott & Martin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy C. Mann Mann & Mann, and Charles M. Cork III Gambrell & Stolz LLC, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1661

    The appellee was not entitled to rely on the renewal statute to maintain a personal injury action against appellant, since she failed to make appellant a party to her original action prior to volunt

  • Sellers v. Sellers

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan D. Raymond and Philip T. Raymond III Shaffer, Raymond & Dalton, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roxanne M. Hinson Westmoreland, Patterson & Moseley, Macon, for appellees. Other party representation: Jon-Selby R. Hawk Sell & Melton LLP, Macon.
    Case Number: A05A1842

    The evidence showed that the mother significantly failed to support her child for one year prior to the filing of the adoption pet

  • Waddell v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. M. Raffauf, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1961

    The trial court did not err in charging the jury on parties to a crime, since the aggravated assault and armed robbery victim saw a second individual at the crime scene and did not actually see the

  • Lee v. Thomason

    Publication Date: 2006-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicolle G. Holt, County Attorney, Willie J. Lovett Jr., Rory K. Starkey and Marina K. Duncan County Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Allen L. Broughton Broughton & Fernandez and Brian C. McCarthy, Roswell, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A1945

    Loss of consortium damages are not absolutely dependant on proof of a loss or impairment of sexual rela