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  • Ditman v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-12-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy B. Lumpkin, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Allen R. Knox, John R. Edwards, Assistant District Attorneys, and Marc D. Cella, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2020

    The 36-month delay prejudiced the defendant because he was not unable to locate a material witness, whose testimony would have lent credence to his claim that he did not sexually abuse the witness's

  • Boyd v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A08A0250

    The defendant threatened and slapped the 16-year-old victim, while he repeated attempted to penetrate her and the victim's mother testified that her residence, where the crimes took place, is i

  • Blackmon v. Tenet Healthsystem Spalding Inc.

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas D. Trask and David F. Walbert Parks, Chesin, Walbert & Miller PC, Atlanta, for Blackmon. Thomas S. Carlock and Eric J. Frisch Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Atlanta, for Webb and others. Kevin P. Race and Brian K. Mathis Insley & Race LLC, for Tenet Heathsystem.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A07A1840; A07A2284; A07A2283

    The decedent's mother lacked standing to bring a wrongful death action in state court where the decedent's spouse survive

  • Goodin v. Gwinnett Health Sys. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-04-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa Goodin, Lawrenceville, proceeded pro se. Ashley D. Phillips, Juaquin L. Feazell, hall, Booth Smith & Slover PC, Wade K. Copeland, Margaret F. Blackwood Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, Frederick N. Gleaton Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Gretchen M. Holt Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A05A0587

    The trial court properly dismissed the plaintiff's pro se medical malpractice suit, because her original unsworn expert affidavit was invalid and her amended affidavit was untimely filed more than

  • Stone v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-03-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard K. Murray, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Sharon M. Fox, Assistant District Attorney, Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0692

    The totality of the circumstances supported the trial court's finding that the 15-year-old's statement to police was knowing and volu

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, and Katherine K. Lumsden, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0477

    Defense counsel was not deficient for filing an improper, but meritless, motion to recuse the trial

  • Morgan v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-01-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellis R. Garnett, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, and Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2276

    Defendant failed to show that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to call several unnamed witnesses who allegedly would have testified in his

  • Pickering Corp. v. Goodwin

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryant H. Bower Jr. and Rebecca R. Crowley Dillard & Bower, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth E. Futch Jr. and Teresa G. Bowen, Blackshear, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0100

    Plaintiff failed to show that the store, which had less than 90 seconds to clean up the water spill before plaintiff slipped, was negl