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  • St. Fleur v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Kenner Jr., Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Gail M. Travillian, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, and Stephen N. Knights Jr., Solicitor General, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A1971

    Officers did not improperly prolong the duration of the defendant's lawful traffic stop in having a drug dog perform a free-air sniff less than five minutes of the stop and while one of the officers

  • Aguey-Zinsou v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Michael Maloof, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2324

    The responding officers had exigent circumstances to justify their warrantless entry into the defendant's apartment based on a 911 call that shots had been fired at his apartment complex and their o

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald R. Parker, Assistant Pub. Defender, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, Samuel M. Olmstead and Eric A. Collins District Attorney's Office, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2385

    The defendant's sentence on his guilty plea for trafficking cocaine was not facially illegal, since it did not exceed the statutory range permitted by O.C.G.A. § 16-13

  • McBee v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura K. Willcox Ballinger & Assocs., Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joe W. Hendricks Jr., District Attorney, and David V. Rhoden District Attorney's Office, Ellijay, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A1937

    Officers found methamphetamine under the passenger seat where the defendant was sitting, as well as a syringe and brass knuckles in the defendant's pockets, and the defendant admitted giving a false

  • Griffis v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin G. Ryan, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., Solicitor General, and Angelique B. McClendon, Assistant Solicitor, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2244

    The defendant lay drag in the officer's presence-in a fast-food restaurant drive-thru line-in a manner, which could have caused injury to person or pro

  • Peoples v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-02-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa L. Smith Public Defender's Office, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2177

    The defendants' convictions di merge for sentencing purposes, since each offense required proof that the other di