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  • In the Interest of E. N. R.

    Publication Date: 2013-09-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
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    Case Number: A13A1602; A13A1603

    Evidence of the parents' low level of functioning and severe impact on their abilities to parent their chi supported the juvenile court's finding of deprivation for the four minor chi

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-06-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timika Dennis, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Pipkin, Solicitor General, and Brittany Lavalle, Assistant Solicitor General, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0491

    The police officer's questioning of the passengers in the car after a traffic stop did not extend the scope of the detention nor unreasonably prolong the search, since it occurred within the timefra

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Bearden, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory Winters, District Attorney, and Dorothy Hull, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1552

    An eyewitness identified the defendant as one of four members of a local street gang, who shot at an SUV, wounding two of its six occu

  • Lipscomb v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa L. Smith Public Defender's Office, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, and Deborah D. Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0506

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in failing to strike a juror for cause who initially indicated that she had some opinion as to guilt or innocence, since extensive further questioning es

  • State v. Hammond

    Publication Date: 2012-02-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Atlanta, and Elizabeth A. Baker District Attorney's Office, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jessica K. Stern Kish and Lietz PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A1724

    The defendant was not in custody for purposes of Miranda when he admitted to possessing contr

  • State v. Mincher

    Publication Date: 2012-02-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert E. Brooks Jr., District Attorney, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A1906

    The trial court properly granted the defendant's motion to suppress evidence garnered as a result of a traffic stop for making an illegal right turn, as the stop was unreasonable and not based on th

  • Tolbert v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell K. Walker, Perry, for appellant. T. Rabb Wilkerson III, District Attorney, George H. Hartwig III, District Attorney, and Daryl E. Manns, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1077

    Evidence that the defendant grabbed the first victim by the throat and pulled her from the kitchen into the living room and that both defendants dragged the second victim inside the home during the

  • In the Interest of S. B.

    Publication Date: 2011-11-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phyllis R. Williams, Decatur, for appellant. Yolanda M. Smith-Williams The Smith Williams Law Firm LLC, Marietta, Rosalind M. Zollicoffer, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1224

    The actions of the parents as to their two older children authorized the juvenile court to find that two younger siblings were also dep

  • First Media Group Inc. v. Doe

    Publication Date: 2011-10-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Flint, Mark W. Forsling Schreeder Wheeler & Flint LLP, and Jay D. Bennett Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant. Lance A. Cooper, Marietta, and Robert K. Finnell, Rome, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1248

    Because the p ff did not have actual notice of the trial court's intended disposition of the defendant's summary judgment motion, she was entitled to voluntarily dismiss her comp

  • Orton v. Masquerade Inc.

    Publication Date: 2011-09-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles B. Tanksley and James C. Tribble The Barnes Law Group LLC, Marietta, for appellant. Wade K. Copeland and Lee P. Gutschenritter Carlock Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A0792

    The district court did not err in finding that an allegedly negligent performer was an independent contractor as a matter of law, notwithstanding the defendants' oral agreements with the performer e