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  • Daniels v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, and Keith A. McIntyre, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A0418

    The defendant's convi for aggravated assault merged with his armed robbery convi

  • Hankla v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2010-08-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory T. Talley and Edward F. Preston Coleman Talley LLP, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Laura M. Shamp Brown & Shamp, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0077

    Plaintiff's experts were qualified with the exception of her non-medical expert's testimony on the breach of standard of

  • Bautista v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leah D. Madden Davis, Madden & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David McDade, District Attorney, Ryan R. Leonard and James A. Dooley, Assistant District Attorneys, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1330

    First-degree vehicular homicide cases do not have to include aggravating factors such as speeding or driving while intoxicated, but instead can be proven by showing that a defendant caused the death

  • Clarke v. Freeman

    Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew M. Scherffius III, Gregory R. Eagle Andrew M. Scherffius PC, Atlanta, and Randy J. Ebersbach Kam, Ebersbach & Lewis, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert D. Ware, Meka B. Ward County Attorney's Office, Ralph I. Knowles Jr., Sheryl L. McCalla Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield, Knowles & Devine, Theodore Freeman, Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, Matthew R. LaVallee Daley, Koster & LaVallee, Atlanta, William T. Mitchell, Karen E. Woodward Cruser & Mitchell, Norcross, Jack R. Hancock and Pamela F. Everett Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, Forest Park, for appellees. Other party representation: Terry E. Williams, Jason C. Waymire, Buford, Jolanda E. Herring Hollowell Foster & Herring PC, Douglas R. Kertscher Hill, Kertscher & Wharton LLP, Tiffany C. Sellers, Thomas G. Sampson Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson & Tompkins, Coy J. Johnson Jr. County Attorney's Office, James E. Dearing Jr., Atlanta, and Paul I. Hotchkiss Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, Forest Park.
    Case Number: A09A2339, A09A2340

    The trial court erred in dismissing the appellants' emotional distress claims, because the defendants were aware either of a specific threat to employees in the judge's chambers or of the weapon tha

  • Guerrero v. McDonald

    Publication Date: 2010-02-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James G. Killough, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Theodore N. Stapleton, Atlanta, John R. Fornaciari and Robert M. Disch Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, Washington, D.C., for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A1715

    The plaintiff's recoupment claim failed, because plaintiff presented no evidence showing that accountant did not exercise his best jud

  • Greenwood Homes v. Larue Long

    Publication Date: 2010-01-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam H. Long and Veronica H. Cope Allen, Kopet & Associates, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William R. Carlisle Carlisle Law Firm LLC, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A0843

    O.C.G.A. § 9-11-41 a 1 authorized the plaintiff to voluntarily dismiss her superior court litigation and the result of her action was the dismissal of her case, not the dismissal of her a

  • Staton v. State Farm Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2009-12-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David F. Guldenschuh, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: John A. Owens, J. Clinton Sumner Jr. Magruder & Sumner, Rome, Cubbedge Snow III and Thomas P. Allen III Martin Snow LLP, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A1606

    The plaintiff was not a named insured and was not entitled to stack the UM coverage in his employer's insurance policies covering two vehicles that were not involved in the underlying car acc

  • Bd. of Regents of the Univ. System of Georgia v. Casey

    Publication Date: 2009-12-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Joan G. Crumpler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Brian F. Dorsey, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . George D. Bush and Martin C. Puetz, Augusta, for appellee. Other party representation: James S. V. Weston Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley PC, Augusta.
    Case Number: A09A0797

    A medical expert's opinion derived from applying his medical knowledge and experience with previous cases to plaintiff's medical records and deposition testimony was admis

  • Gunn v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason W. Swindle Drummond & Swindle and Maryellen Simmons, Assistant Chief Circuit Public Defender, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Anne C. Allen and Jeffery W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorneys, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1595

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of the defendant's prior sexual abuse of three other children to show his intent or state of mind, because the evidence was suffici

  • DeVente v. Flora

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frederick D. Burkey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Allen W. Bodiford, Stockbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1166

    Under O.C.G.A. § 19-7-1 c 1 & 2, the minor decedent's posthumously born child had the exclusive right to pursue a wrongful death claim for her father's hom