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In the Interest of D. B.

Publication Date: 2006-02-17
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wystan B. Getz Oakhurst Law Group of Getz LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and John J. Martin Jr. Martin & McGuire, Conyers, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A2338

The Court affirmed the order extending temporary custody of the children and ending reunification services, because the parents failed to substantially comply with the reunification order, failed to

In the Interest of J. D. F.

Publication Date: 2006-02-17
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald P. Privin, McDonough, for appellant.
for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Jason T. Harper Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough, for appellee. Other party representation: Faye E. Hayes, Ann K. Miller, Stockbridge, and Alissa Ratcliff, McDonough.
Case Number: A05A2328

Insufficient evidence supported a finding that the children's deprivation with regard to their incarcerated father would continue upon his scheduled release in December

Gonzalez v. State

Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Gibert, Marietta, for appellant.
for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A1766

The defendant was riding as a passenger in a stolen vehicle when an officer stopped it for a traffic violation and DNA evidence matched blood found on the defendant's shoe to the third robbery victi

Mobley v. State

Publication Date: 2006-02-03
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia F. Angeli, Jonesboro, for appellant.
for defendant: Jewel C. Scott, District Attorney, Jonesboro, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A1914

The pretrial lineup was not impermissibly suggestive, even though the defendant was the sole handcuffed suspect, since the other three suspects were required to stand as if they were handcuffed as

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Jennings v. State

Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula O. Free, Winder, for appellant.
for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Jefferson, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A1866

The victim's identification of the defendant as her attacker was reliable under the totality of the circumstances as she had ample opportunity to observe him during the course of the

Walker v. State

Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A2176

The defendant was not entitled to exclusion of testimony describing the physical evidence seized under warrant from his residence on the basis that the testimony was the fruit of an unconstitutional

Hodges v. State

Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edea M. Caldwell, McDonough, for appellant.
for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Blair D. Mahaffey, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A2274

The circumstantial evidence did not support a finding that the defendant's had joint constructive possession of the cocaine found on the floor behind the driver's seat of the car, which his co-defen

Hardeman v. State

Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Strauss, Covington, for appellant.
for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A2351

The trial court did not err in admitting a witness's prior testimony under oath from the defendant's probation revocation hearing after determining that the witness was unavailable within the meanin

Steverson v. State

Publication Date: 2006-01-06
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen E. Tillman, Baxley, for appellant.
for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, and John B. Johnson III, Assistant District Attorney, Jesup, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A2269

The 13-year-old victim testified that the defendant pulled his pants down and put his mouth on his penis and the defendant's girlfriend testified that she witnessed the inc