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  • 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

  • In the Interest of A. T.

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sonya R. Chachere-Compton, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and Andrea R. Moldovan, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0131

    The Court reinstated the biological mother's parental rights because DFACS failed to present any evidence that her children would be seriously affected by a continuing parental relationship with 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 D. L. S.

    Publication Date: 2005-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold W. Wallace III, Thomson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Thomas B. Hammond, Thomson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0375

    The children were removed from their parents' custody due to extreme neglect and unsafe living conditions, the parents failed to comply with the reunification plan, and the parents failed to obtain

  • Stinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Crowe Lane & Crowe PC, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, John B. Johnson III, Ann S. Williams and Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorneys, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2554

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that the defendant did not retain an unqualified right to withdraw his guilty plea after he signed a Drug Court Contract and utilized the b

  • Thompson v. Thompson

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles M. Cork III Reynolds & McArthur, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: John K. Train IV and Julye M. Johns Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A2321

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that the trial court reversibly erred in a medical malpractice case in charging the jury that proximate cause is "sometimes called the domin

  • In the Interest of A. M. A.

    Publication Date: 2004-12-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Adams Jr., Thomaston, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and John R. Mallory, Thomaston, for appellee. Other party representation: Alonzo J. Bentley Jr., Thomaston.
    Case Number: A04A2162

    The juvenile court improperly delegated its duty to inquire about the mother's indigence when it adopted indigent counsel's finding that the mother was not indigent, without considering any evidence

  • Harper v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-12-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nathaniel Harper, Carrollton, proceeded pro se. Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and Finnis K. Salmon, Rome, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A05A0260

    The defendant's five prior felony convictions, which he pled guilty to on the same day before the same judge and for which he received concurrent sentences, were not "consolidated for trial" as cont

  • In the Interest of K. R.

    Publication Date: 2004-11-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Earle J. Duncan III, Glennville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Sherri P. McDonald Newtton, Smith, Durden, Kaufold & Rice, Vidalia, for appellee. Other party representation: Sean J. Lowe Cheney & Cheney PC, Reidsville, and Carol B. Miller, Pembroke.
    Case Number: A05A0097

    Some evidence showed that the mother unjustifiably failed to comply with her case

  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-11-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anna Blitz, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, Blair D. Mahaffey and Alicia C. Gant, Assistant District Attorneys, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2100

    Competent evidence supported the trial court's finding that defendant's garbage cans were outside the curtilage of his