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  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-12-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven M. Harrison, Public Defender, Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel H. Altman, District Attorney, John A. Fitzner III, Chief Assistant District Attorney, and Mary K. McKinnon, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1228

    Defense counsel was deficient in failing to object to the trial court's questioning of the defendant's alleged accomplice about his truthfulness, since the trial court's questions clearly intimated

  • Charales v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-12-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Sullivan Chestney Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carmen Smith, Solicitor General, and R. Leon Benham, Assistant Solicitor General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1040

    The State failed to prove that the Atlanta Police Department's checkpoint program as a whole had an appropriate primary purpose and the trial court therefore erred in denying the defendant's motion

  • Rivers v. K-Mart Corp.

    Publication Date: 2014-11-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Creasy, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Strawinski and Daniel Cheek Strawinski & Stout PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A0752

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing evidence of the plaintiff's criminal history during the damages stage of the bifurcated trial on his claims of malicious prosecution and fals

  • Pierre-Louis v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-09-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Erickson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Fortner, James McDade, District Attorneys, and Rachel Ackley, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1275

    The evidence supported the defendant's child cruelty conviction, as witnesses testified that he failed to intervene while his girlfriend beat her 3-year-ol

  • Oliver v. McDade

    Publication Date: 2014-09-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P. Marcovitch, John K. Train IV, Joshua S. Wood Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial LLC, Atlanta, Scott W. McMickle, and Stephanie F. Brown McMickle Kurey & Branch LLP, Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Katherine L. McArthur and Caleb F. Walker Katherine L. McArthur LLC, Macon, for appellees.
    Case Number: A14A0147

    A question of fact remained as to whether the pecuniary loss rule applied to the plaintiff's negligence claim, as neither the complaint nor the plaintiff's deposition testimony set out any facts sho

  • Central Mortg. Co. v. Humphrey

    Publication Date: 2014-07-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kent Altom McCalla Raymer LLC, James Blum, Valerie Smith Beloin, Brown, Blum LLC, Atlanta, Kimberly Wright, and Jimmy Howell McCalla Raymer LLC, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: James McGinnis, Lawrenceville, and Steven Webster, Norcross, for appellees. Other party representation: Jimmy Dollar Jr., Norcross, Wachovia Bank NA, Jacksonville, Fla., and Benjamin Fryer, Charlotte, N. C.
    Case Number: A14A0346

    The trial court did not err in denying the plaintiff's petition to reform the property description in a deed, as the evidence supported a finding that the defendants failed to reach a meeting of th

  • State v. Holmes

    Publication Date: 2014-04-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica Moss, Solicitor General, and Jansen Jones, Assistant Solicitor General, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry Bishop and Christopher Bishop Barry W. Bishop PC, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A2164

    The officer who ed the DUI defendant's vehicle lacked an articulable suspicion of wrongdoing to validate the

  • McKinney v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Rutledge Public Defender's Office, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rosemary Greene, District Attorney, and Suzanne Brookshire District Attorney's Office, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A2385

    The defendant's motion to suppress was properly denied, since the officer's testimony regarding his experience with the K-9 dog and his observations and conclusions regarding the dog's behavior was

  • SPH Glynn LLC v. Glynn Cnty. Bd. of Tax Assessors

    Publication Date: 2014-03-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
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    Case Number: A13A1752; A13A1753

    The property owner was entitled to recover attorneys' fees and costs under O.C.G.A. § 48-5-311 subsection g 4 B ii, as the final property valuation in its tax appeal was $2.6M, in comparison to the

  • 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