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  • Simons v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-10-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer R. Burns Public Defender's Office, Savannah, for appellant. Larry Chisolm, District Attorney, David E. Perry, Chief Assistant District Attorney, and Anna Guardino District Attorney's Office, Savannah, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A11A1026

    Evidence of the defendant's prior drug use was relevant and admissible at her trial for ro by sudden snatching because it showed her motive to participate in the ro

  • Tunali v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-10-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant. Nina M. Baker, Solicitor General, and Julian A. Mack Solicitor General's Office, LaGrange, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A11A1158

    The Department of Public Safety rules at issue were subject to judicial notice because they were promulgated pursuant to the Georgia Administrative Procedur

  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. McCall Calhoun Jr., Demorest, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, and Lindsey H. Burton, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A0673

    The evidence supported the defendant's conviction for conspiracy to commit armed ro even though the jury acquitted him on the charge of attempted armed ro

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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