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  • Hogan v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-03-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Renate D. Moody, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, and Dorothy V. Hull, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0770

    The trial court did not did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of the defendant's similar sexual offenses against children of the same age and gender, which took place up to eight years

  • In the Interest of S. G.

    Publication Date: 2005-03-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hurl R. Taylor Jr., Ellenwood, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Mark J. Cicero, Assistant Attorney General, and Robert G. Nardone, Avondale Estate, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0212

    The mother's severe mental deficiency-paranoid schizophrenia-rendered her unable to adequate care for her

  • Layfield v. Department of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alfred N. Corriere, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy J. Buckley III, Kelly R. Castellow Finley & Buckley PC, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Reagan W. Dean, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A04A1786

    Absent evidence of causation or negligence, defendants were entitled to summary judgment in plaintiff's suit arising out of a 1-car acc

  • Wilson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Millsaps, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Monroe, and Robert B. Faircloth Newton County District Attorney's Office, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0141

    The defendant's conviction for cocaine possession was reversed due to the ineffective assistance of his trial co

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcia G. Shein, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, and Gregory W. Edwards District Attorney's Office, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0069

    The defendant failed to show how he was harmed by the trial court's comment that it would instruct the jury on how to analyze the statements of a defendant or by the jury charge

  • Steele v. Atlanta Maternal-Fetal Med. PC

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen F. Harris and Jim N. Peterson Jr. Peterson & Harris PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John E. Hall Jr. and Jonathan Marigliano Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A04A2023

    The trial court reversibly erred in overruling the plaintiffs' objection to defense counsel's closing argument, in which counsel effectively argued that the plaintiffs bore the burden of proving the

  • Owens v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and James L. Wright III, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0451

    The court did not err in making the defendant's 5-year sentences on two firearm possession convictions consecutive to all other sentences given at

  • In the Interest of C. B.

    Publication Date: 2005-01-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher M. Miller Miller & Assocs., Jasper, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Dana M. Thompson, John F. Cline Dana M. Thompson & Assocs. PC, Canton, for appellee. Other party representation: Wallace W. Rogers Jr., Assistant District Attorney, and Michael C. Chisolm, Canton.
    Case Number: A04A1722

    The father's inability to care for his special needs child early in her life led to her admission to a hospital for serious ne

  • Porter v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-01-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Newton County Public Defender, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Monroe, and Layla V. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2218

    Because the defendant's letter to his ex-wife regarding his alleged molestation of a similar transa victim was not testimony, it was not subject to a continuing witness obje

  • DeSouza v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-01-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas and Caprice R. Jenerson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Samuel W. Lengen and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1844

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in declaring a mistrial where the jury was hopelessly deadl