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  • Frazier v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-07-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bernard S. Brody, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and John S. Helton, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0418

    Defense counsel was deficient for failing to object to the admissibility of the defendant's custodial statement, which officers obtained in violation of his Miranda rights, after the defendant repea

  • Ameris Bancorp v. Ackerman

    Publication Date: 2009-03-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James H. Moore III and Allen H. Olson Moore, Clarke, Duvall & Rodgers PC, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin T. Butler, Cairo, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A1588

    The exculpatory language in the guarantee executed along with the lease and note in question did not bar the plaintiff's claims, since the guaranty applied to the city of Cairo's obligations to the

  • West v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Adam, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, Gainesville, John G. Wilbanks Jr. and Jennifer D. Hart, Assistant District Attorneys, Dawsonville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2271

    The defendant refused to leave the roadway in front of a private home, after an officer repeatedly told him to

  • Moran v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-08-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
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    Case Number: A08A1525

    The defendant waived the disqualification of a juror, whose uncle was the victim's grandfather, because the defendant offer no evidence that neither he, nor his counsel knew of or could have dis

  • Cotton States Mut. Ins. Co. v. Stephen Brown Ins. Agency Inc.

    Publication Date: 2008-04-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
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    Case Number: A07A1720; A08A0960

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion when it granted an interlocutory injunction compelling post contract-termination payments from the defendants pending arbitration of the parties' br

  • Trujillo v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, Atlantic Beach, Fla., for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Brunswick, and William S. Hart, Woodbine, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0936

    Evidence that an officer seized two duffle bags weighing over 50 pounds and containing plant matter, which tested positive rijuana in three separate tests, supported the defendant's conviction

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl J. Spence, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rosanna M. Szabo, Solicitor, and Liza M. Moultrie Solicitor General's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A1356

    Two breath tests taken 11 minutes apart were taken sequentially for the purposes of O.C.G.A. § 40-

  • Board of Regents of the Univ. Sys. Of Ga. v. Doe

    Publication Date: 2006-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Bryan K. Webb, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ralph W. Ellis, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.
    for defendant: Warren N. Sams III The Sams Law Firm, T. Joshua Archer and Michael J. Bowers Balch & Bingham, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1892

    Material issues of fact remained as to whether the Board of Regents of the University System rgia breached a 1997 employment contract to hire the plaintiff as a tenured full professor and dean

  • Ledford v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stacy D. Barnett The Barnett Law Firm, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Allen D. Morris, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1397

    The defendant's previous use of a pocketknife to stab someone in anger and without provocation was relevant to the issue of whether he intended to threaten or harm the victim in this

  • Fernandez v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin W. Drummond, Carrollton, for Fernandez. Gerald P. Word Johnson, Word & Simmons, Carrollton, for Esparza. Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A05A1046; A05A1047

    The defendants' nervousness and conflicting stories about why they traveled from California to Atlanta authorized the jury to find that they were aware of the 33 kilos of cocaine, which was hidden i