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  • Spear v. Calhoun

    Publication Date: 2003-07-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joyce W. Bergman, Fairburn, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert M. Darroch and Gino L. Montoya Mabry & McClelland LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0392

    The owner of an apartment complex could not have foreseen the death of plaintiff's daughter who was hit by a stray bullet fired by a New Year's Eve re

  • Georgia Dep't of Human Resources v. Sweat

    Publication Date: 2003-05-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Nina J. Edidin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Charles R. Reddick, Homerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: E. Kontz Bennett Jr., Waycross, Daryl G. Lecroy, Atlanta, and Samuel Sweat, Pearson, for appellees. Amicus appellants: Rebecca A. Hoelting Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Found., Sheila K. Chrzan, Vicky O. Kimbrell, Lisa J. Krisher and Phyllis J. Holmen, Atlanta. Amicus appellees: William C. Akins, Gainesville, Daniel A. Bloom Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, David A. Webster and Ashley Carraway, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S03A0179

    Georgia's statutory child support guidelines are constitut

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-03-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Bennett Jr. Bennett Law Firm, Valdosta, for Roddrick Jackson. Terry L. Schwock, Valdosta, for Brian Jackson. J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Bradfield M. Shealy, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A02A2238, A02A2239

    Defendants' accomplice identified them as the masked men who robbed a convenience a store and identified the first defendant as the g

  • Wilson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy J. Crouch, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bryant G. Speed II, District Attorney, Fred R. Simpson, Acting District Attorney, and Martha P. Jacobs, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1325

    Evidence, other than defendant's mere presence and equal access to drugs found behind his house, supported his convic

  • Golden Peanut Co. v. Bass

    Publication Date: 2002-05-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay D. Bennett, Candace N. Smith, Paul J. Kaplan Alston & Bird, Emmet J. Bondurant, Michael B. Terry and Frank M. Lowrey IV Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Griffin B. Bell, Benjamin F. Easterlin IV, Michael C. Russ, John P. Brumbaugh King & Spalding, Atlanta, Whitney G. Saunders Saunders, Babineau & Brewbaker LLC, Suffolk, Va., and Wayne S. Weaver Southwestern Peanut Shellers Assoc., Stephenville, Texas, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Evans J. Plowden Jr., Dawn G. Benson, and Charles K. Wainwright II Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless LLP, Albany.
    Case Number: S01G1157

    Contract clause relating to the sale of additional peanuts at a higher than contracted price was not void for violation of federa

  • Canada v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-04-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney H. Bennett The Bennett Law Firm, Rossville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, Chris A. Arnt, Assistant District Attorney, LaFayette, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jill M. Zubler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0446

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying funds for expert testing of the steak knife used in a stabbing and a pocketknife belonging to the victim for traces of the defendant's blood s

  • Britt v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Victor L. Britt, Waycross, proceeded pro se. Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel G. Ashburn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S01A0873

    The trial court's failure to inform defendant of his additional rights under Uniform Superior Court Rule 33.8 did not render his guilty plea constitutionally in

  • Webb v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-09-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker and Gregory K. Schwarz, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1020

    The victims' testimony regarding the similarity between defendant's scar and that of the masked robber was admissible, even though the prosecutor showed the victims a photograph of defendant's scar,

  • Wiley v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin C. Jones Webb, Stuckey & Lindsey LLC, Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Sandra A. Graves, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1026

    Defendant's own testimony that he did not commit the crimes precluded him from asserting an entrapment de

  • Taylor v. Powertel Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Dorian Britt, Robert B. Turner and Brent J. Savage Savage, Turner & Pinson, Savannah,, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott E. Taylor and Aaron M. Danzig Arnall, Golden & Gregory, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1508

    Plaintiff failed to show that the erroneous out-of-state taxes included in his cellular phone bill constituted an identifiable fund to which he had an immediate right of posse