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  • Harper v. Ameris Bank

    Publication Date: 2014-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Simon Bloom, Ariel Zion, and Stephanie Everett The Bloom Sugarman Everett LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kimberly Harris and Quentin Marlin Ellis Painter Ratteree & Adams, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A1694

    A party seeking to confirm a nonjudicial foreclosure sale is under no obligation to present an expert appraisal of the pro

  • WellStar Health Sys. Inc. v. Kemp

    Publication Date: 2013-11-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
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    Case Number: A13A1417; A13A1418

    The Court of Appeals affirmed the grant of the medical malpractice plaintiff's motion to disqualify the defendant's counsel for tampering with her expert wi

  • Thompson v. LaFarge Bldg. Materials Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-08-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hylton Dupree and Blake Carl Dupree & Kimbrough LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Schweber Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen, and John Williams Dietrick, Evans, Scholz & Williams, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0740

    LaFarge Bldg. Materials v. Pratt, 307 Ga. App. 767 2011, adversely decided the issue of whether the individual defendant's personal guaranty satisfied the Statute of Frauds in this suit on an accoun

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alixe Steinmetz Public Defender's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert James, District Attorney, Decatur, and Daniel Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A2308

    The defendant conspired with other employees at his place of employment to falsify their overtime records in exchange for a portion of their unearned pay and non-accomplice witnesses corroborated th

  • Henderson v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-04-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Albert Palmour and Steven Miller, Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, District Attorney, and Harold Goldin, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A2240

    The State proved the defendant's knowledge e ages e children depicted performing sexual acts on DVDs and computer movie files that the defendant possessed, through the admission of portion

  • Edgecomb v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Michael Treadaway, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Head, D. Victor Reynolds, District Attorneys, Allen Knox, Assistant District Attorney, and John Edwards District Attorney's Office, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1823

    The trial court improperly instructed the jury on the unindicted offense of violating a family violence order as a lesser included offense of the charged crime of aggravated sta

  • Evans v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-12-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Adams Public Defender's Office, Thomaston, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Ballard, District Attorney, Thomaston, Robert Smith, Assistant District Attorney, and David Younker District Attorney's Office, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1305

    The jury was authorized to reject a hypothesis that the 60.65 grams of marijuana found at the scene with multiple small individual baggies was for the defendant's persona

  • Mickens v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-11-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cerille Nassau, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, and Micheal D. Thurston, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1190

    Evidence showed that the defendant's DNA matched that of the rape victim's attacker, the defendant's DNA profile would occur in his race group once out of 200 quadrillion people, and he had committe

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-11-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley Schoolcraft Public Defender's Office, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, and Elizabeth A. Baker District Attorney's Office, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1356

    In his appeal from child molestation convictions, the defendant failed to demonstrate a reasonable probability t would not have pled guilty if his trial counsel had not disclosed to the State

  • Jaraysi v. Sebastian

    Publication Date: 2012-11-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Cauthorn III and Leslie D. O'Neal Cauthorn Nohr & O'Dell PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . C. Lee Davis Bailey Davis Brown & Sutton LLC and Kenneth S. Waldrop, Marietta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A0917

    The trial court erred in finding that the landlord breached a subsequent oral agreement to provide security, additional lighting, and to complete construction of an office building across the street