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  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-11-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Culp, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, and Melanie J. Brogden, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2273

    Any error in allowing two officers to testify that the toy gun used by the defendant looked real was harmless since their test was cumulative of another officer's unobjected-to test

  • Shackelford v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-10-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucy K. Henry and Christopher J. Walker III Carey, Jarrard & Walker, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason J. Deal, District Attorney, Alison W. Toller and Lindsey H. Burton, Assistant District Attorneys, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2173

    The defendant failed to make a prima facie showing of justification, which was necessary for admission of evidence of the victim's prior violent

  • Banks v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-10-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Alexander III, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amelia G. Pray and Ann B. Harris, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2067

    The trial court did not place the defendant's character in issue by reading a portion of his indictment to the jury in which he was identified by the alias, "Ps

  • Carden v. Warren

    Publication Date: 2004-09-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edea M. Caldwell, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: David B. Brown, Jonesboro, and Joseph S. Key Sexton & Morris PC, Stockbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1592

    The biological father did not abandon his opportunity interest in his 7-year-old son, to whom he provided continuous financial support and attempted to contact both socially and through gifts and

  • Gearin v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-10
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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: A04A0968

    Cole v. State, 262 Ga. App. 856 2003, is overruled to the extent it states that O.C.G.A. § 17-10-7 a "is not applicable to sentences imposed pursuant to a hearing on a guilty

  • Lanier v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clark C. Adams Jr., Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, and Michael E. Craig, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1662

    A witness's testimony that that the defendant had been in jail did not put the defendant's character at

  • Crutchfield v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-08-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel R. Partain and Anthony S. Carter Walton Public Defender's Office, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and David E. Boyle, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1643

    Defendant failed to return a truck to a dealership after taking the truck for a test

  • Mayfield v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-12-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harvey S. Wasserman, Carnesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, Hartwell, and Richard K. Bridgeman, Assistant District Attorney, Carnesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1715

    The 5-year delay between defendant's arrest and did not violate his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy where defendant failed to appear at his noticed

  • Bradley v. Frank

    Publication Date: 2003-12-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Garlan B. Furin and George L. Barron Jr. Barron & Barron, College Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: Louis Levenson Louis Levenson & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2099

    The grant of summary judgment to the plaintiff was appropriate where the undisputed evidence showed that her ex-husband breached the settlement agreement incorporated into their divorce d

  • Carson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-12-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn G. Fant, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Maziar Mazloom and Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1403

    Since defendant had no intention of accepting the state's plea offer, he could not show prejudice from his counsel's alleged failure to inform that he would be given a mandatory sentence of life wit