• In the Interest of A. J. D. S.

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Earle W. Angell, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: in A09A1883. Willie J. Woodruff Jr., Toccoa, for appellant in A09A1884. Marie K. Evans, Clarksville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Elizabeth M. Williamson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1883, A09A1884

    The mother failed to comply with reunification case plans during the year prior to the filing of the termination petition, was uncooperative with a drug screener, failed to pay child support consist

  • City of Chickamauga v. Hent

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary K. Morris Williams, Morris & Blum LLC, Buford, for appellant.
    for defendant: William D. Hentz, LaFayette, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A2099

    The Recreational Property Act barred the plaintiff's injury claims arising from her fall walking on a city-owned walkway, which was used for exercising, walking and jo

  • Banks-Jackson-Commerce Hosp. & Nursing Home Auth. v. Floyd

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey D. Braintwain and Anna B. Fretwell Huff, Powell & Bailey LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Vincent Cook, Robert C. Irwin III Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael LLP, Athens, and John A. Dickerson McClure, Ramsay, Dickerson & Escoe LLP, Toccoa, for appellees.

    Case Number: A09A1368

    The plaintiffs' claims did not meet O.C.G.A. § 9-11-20 a's requirements for joinder as each alleged different damages arising out of different medical treatment on different

  • Walker v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Salvatore L. Schiappa III, Public Defender, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Clint C. Malcolm District Attorney's Office, Covington, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1539

    Since the defendant's detention was illegal, his attempt to avoid it could not support an obstruction c

  • DuPree v. South Atlantic Conference of Seventh Day Adventists Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-08-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard S. Alembik, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donna J. Salem Salem & Wong and Wendell K. Willard, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A09A0722

    A factual questioned remained as to whether the defendant waived its right to object to plaintiff's failure to make a second earnest money deposit 10 days before the scheduled cl

  • Bennett v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-07-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas A. Lotito Davis, Zipperman, Kirschenbaum & Lotito, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Melanie M. Bell, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1311

    De counsel was deficient for failing to admit evidence of the victim's prior conviction for family violence aggravated assault in presenting the defendant's justification de

  • Danco Fin. Inc. v. Mauldin Body Shop Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-05-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel A. Coleman, Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: G. Channing Ruskell Carson & Ruskell, Woodstock, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A0627

    A body shop forfeited its right to storage fees under the abandoned motor vehicle statute, O.C.G.A. § 40-11-2, because it failed to timely notify the vehicle's lien holder and strict compliance with

  • Wingfield v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-05-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert D. Lenhardt, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard K. Bridgeman, District Attorney, Jefferson, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A0427

    The evidence supported the prosecutor's closing statement that the defendant was in the business of dealing

  • Troutman v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-04-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sheueli C. Wang Georgia Public Defender Standards Council-Appellate Division, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A0149

    The victim identified the defendant as one of two men, who got into her taxi, put a gun to her neck and took $65 fro

  • Tuggle v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-04-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa L. Smith Public Defender's Office, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Kimberly M. Minicozzi, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A0366

    The investigating officer saw the defendant throw away a pipe containing cocaine re