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  • In Re: Clay Whittle

    Publication Date: 2016-11-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Hudson and William Keogh Hull Barrett PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas McCants Public Defender's Office, Augusta, and John Kraft, Wamego, KS, for appellee. Other party representation: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, Augusta.
    Case Number: A16A1371

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying sheriff's motion to quash a subpoena filed by probationer to obtain the sheriff's department's investigative file for charges upon which State

  • House Hasson Hardware Co. Inc. v. Lawson's Home Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2015-06-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry C. Tharpe Jr. and Rebecca B. Gober Sponcler Tharpe LLC, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: H. Michael Bray and Jennifer S. Gill Bray Johnson, Canton, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A2160

    A guaranty agreement executed as part of a credit application identified the principal debtor with sufficient specificity to satisfy the Statute of F

  • Whorton v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-04-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Smith, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Brooks, John Browning, District Attorneys, Cedartown, Gary Bergman, Special Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, and Charles Spahos, Solicitor General, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0578

    The Child Hearsay Statute did not require the trial court to conduct a pre-trial hearing to determine the reliability of the child victim's hearsay statements or make a finding of sufficient indicia

  • Adorno v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-03-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
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    Case Number: A11A2272; A11A2273

    Evidence showed that the first defendant's 10-year-old and 12-year-old daughters told her several times that the second defendant was molesting them, but the first defendant did not meaningfully in

  • State v. Austin

    Publication Date: 2011-07-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amelia G. Pray, Ann B. Harris, Assistant District Attorneys, John R. Edwards and Anna G. Cross District Attorney's Office, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas E. Griner, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A0601

    The mere fact that the defendant was placed in handcuffs for his own protection did not, in and of itself, render involuntary his consent to show police the gun he had

  • Davenport v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-03-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cinque M. Axam Axam-Roberts Legal Group, Riverdale, for Davenport. Robert L. Mack Jr. Mack & Harris PC, Stockbridge, for Walsh. Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, and Anece Baxter, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A10A1750; A10A1751

    The trial judge did not err in commenting on venue and the open-container charge after both the state and defense rested because the comments were made outside the jury's presence, the case was reop

  • Triple Eagle Assocs. Inc. v. PBK Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-12-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: S. Renee Huskey and Cary Ichter Ichter Thomas LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ann M. Vaughn, Kenya L. Patton and Jack C. Lance Jr., Blairsville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A10A0988

    The trial court erred in holding that a settlement agreement requiring property to be "marketed" within a "suitable period of time" was unenforceable for lack of certainty and definit