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  • In the Interest of V.S.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Moody, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Sanders B. Deen and Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Roger L. Curry, Austell, and John P. Cheeley Cheeley & Joyner LLC, Duluth.
    Case Number: A01A0382

    The evidence did not support the termination of the putative father's parental rights where DFACS filed the termination petition only seven months after his child's birth and did not implement a reu

  • In the Interest of A.W.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa G. Bowen, Blackshear, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Michael D. Devane, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0358

    No clear and convincing evidence supported the termination of the mother's parental rights where the mother complied with reunification plan by maintaining a clean home for more than a year, obtain

  • Taylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, Hampton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0285

    Defendant was not entitled to withdraw his guilty plea to statutory rape after he waived reading of the indictment, said he understood the understood the charge, informed the trial court that he wa

  • Covington v. D. L. Pimper Group Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-03-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott M. Ratchick and Amy K. Alcoke Hunton & Williams, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Mark M. J. Webb and C. King Askew Brinson, Askew, Berry & Seigler, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0398

    Covenant restricting employee from soliciting clients of his former employer with whom he had contact during the two years prior to his resignation was reaso

  • Crosby v. Kendall

    Publication Date: 2001-03-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis K. Polonsky and Matthew D. Crosby, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Taylor W. Jones and Jenny E. Jensen Taylor W. Jones & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2503

    Any error in the trial court's charge that an attorney acting as an escrow agent must meet the standards of the legal profession was harmless because the evidence demanded a finding that the defendi

  • Green v. Proffitt

    Publication Date: 2001-03-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher L. Casey J. Hue Henry PC, Athens, and Benjamin F. Easterlin IV King & Spaulding, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. McGowan and James B. Franklin Franklin, Taulbee, Rushing, Bunce & Brogden, Statesboro, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2527

    The jury's award of $200,000 for the defendant's breach of a management contract was within the range of evidence based on the testimony of plaintiffs' ex

  • Smith v. Gwinnett County

    Publication Date: 2001-03-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gresham H. Harrison and Samuel H. Harrison Harrison & Harrison, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Karen G. Thomas, Deputy County Attorney, Rosanna M. Szabo, Assistant Solicitor, Kristina H. Blum and Melinda K. Wells Gwinnett County Dep't of Law, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2498

    The state lacked jurisdiction to consider defendants' petition for writ of certiorari from their convictions in the recorder's

  • Turner v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wayne L. Burnaine, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2189

    The trial court properly refused to reveal the confidential informant's identity because the defendant was not charged with selling cocaine to the informant and the informant was not present during

  • Watson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer F. Snyder-Surges, DeKalb County Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker and Gregory K. Schwarz, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2167

    The trial court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress the cocaine and gun which he threw away while the officers were pursuing him on

  • Frazier v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Luana K. Walsh, Public Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and George W. K. Snyder Jr., Senior Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1934

    Defendant waived his argument regarding the prosecutor's improper closing comment on his failure to contact police because defendant did not object to the comment at