• In the Interest of S. A.

    Publication Date: 2003-10-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua J. Smith, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Richard K. Murray, Dalton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1044

    Evidence that the father is currently on probation for family violence supported an order discontinuing efforts to reunite him with his chi

  • Suntrust Bank v. Peterson

    Publication Date: 2003-10-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hubert C. Lovein Jr., Timothy K. Adams Jones, Cork & Miller LLP, Macon, R. Alex Crumbley Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough, and John P. Harrington Smith & Harrington, Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: . W. McMillan Walker, Dublin, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0870

    The superior court lacked jurisdiction to hear the probate of decedent's 1997

  • Pitts v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vicki E. Carter, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, and Patricia K. Atwill, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1132

    Defendant failed to show prejudice in the court's denial of his motion for a separate even though he was tried before a jury in conjunction with his co-defendant's nonjury

  • In the Interest of D. D. B.

    Publication Date: 2003-10-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William H. Newton III, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Atlanta, and Holly A Bradfield, Rome, for appellee. Other Party Representation: James G. Meeks Meeks & Richardson, Rome.

    Case Number: A03A1441

    The mother's history of mental illness and unwillingness to consistently to treatment for her condition supported the termination of her parental r

  • Buggay v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steve C. Buggay Jr., Ambrose, proceeded pro se. Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Blair D. Mahaffey, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A03A1609

    The trial court properly merged the defendant's convictions for misdemeanor fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer and fleeing or attempting to elude and sentenced him solely on the

  • Williams v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. M. Raffauf, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lisa S. Morchower Assistant City Attorney, George M. Weaver and Larry D. Wolfe, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A03A1075

    A direct appeal of an order denying substit of a party was premature where the case remained pending below and numerous issues awaited resol

  • Georgia Dep't of Community Health, Div. of Health Planning v. Gwinnett Hosp. Sys. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-09-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Robert S. Bomar, Clyde L. Reese, Deputy Attorneys General, Harold D. Melton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Sidney R. Barrett Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, and James D. Coots, Atlanta, for Georgia Dep't of Community Health. Jeffrey C. Baxter, Stanley S. Jones Jr. and Jennifer D. Malinovsky Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, for EHCA LLC. Randall L. Hughes, Adrienne E. Marting, Charlotte A. Combre And John S. Rees Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, for Gwinnett Hosp. Sys. Alexander S. Clay Kilpatrick & Cody, John W. Ray, Dawnmarie Rodziewicz and James M. Sherman Ray & Sherman, Atlanta, for Saint Joseph's Hosp. Other Party Representation: Kathy K. Dorough Dorough & Dorough LLC, Decatur.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A03A1214; A03A1215; A03A1216; A03A1217

    The provisions of O.C.G.A. § 31-6-2 14, including the 12-month service rule, establish when an institution must apply for a hospital certificate of need, not whether an application is for a "new" or

  • Floyd v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J Farnham Farnham & Assocs., Social Circle, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Bryan H. Frost, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1153

    The trial court properly denied the defendant's Batson claim after the state gave race-neutral reasons for striking three African-American potential j

  • Grier v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew K. Hube Hube & Tucker PC, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rene J. Martin III, Richard A. Mallard, District Attorneys, and Michael T. Muldrew, Assistant District Attorney, Statesbor0, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0996

    Defendant was not entitled to a directed verdict on an obstruction count involving a jail dispatcher who had not completed his mandatory training at the time of defendant's arrest, since the record

  • Bell v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert R. McNeill, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1329

    The trial court did not err in allowing a store security agent to testify regarding his personal knowledge of the price of each stolen