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  • Wyche v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
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    Case Number: A07A1892

    A nolo contendere plea cannot serve as proof of a prior conviction for a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted

  • Wood v. Wood

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
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    Case Number: S07F1474

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in determining that a home in Tattnall county was t e's separate property, since the husband quitclaimed any interest he had in the property to

  • Lindsey v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-10-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Yurachek Mark Allen Yurachek & Assocs. and Bruce S. Harvey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A1220

    The trial court harmfully erred in allowing the prosecutor to question the defendant about his extensive misdemeanor arrest r

  • Pittman v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Stokely, Solicitor General, Sandra N. Wisenbaker Solicitor's Office, Newnan, and Amy B. GodfreyLaw Office of Daniel M. King Jr., Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A1648

    The Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence, since it could not review evidentiary matters critical to the motion without the jury trial trans

  • Tennyson v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randolph Frails, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0680

    The defendant ran over the unarmed victim three times with his vehicle, killin

  • Hinkle v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-12-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan H. Remsen, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and Suhirjahaan S. Morehead District Attorney's Office, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1111

    The defendant did not show that his trial counsel was deficient for failing to call four alibi or corroborating witnesses, in the absence of any evidence as to who the potential witnesses were or wh

  • Allen v. Yost

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kim M. Minix Moore, Clarke, DuVall & Rodgers PC, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Franklin T. Coleman III Hodges, Erwin, Hedrick & Coleman LLP, Maurice L. King Jr., Albany, and Edward R. Collier Collier & Gamble, Dawson, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A1006

    The city council candidate timely filed her challenge under O.C.G.A. § 21-2-524 a to an election she lost by one vote, by filing it on the same day that the recount results were cert

  • Northlake Med. Ctr. LLC v. Queen

    Publication Date: 2006-08-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel S. Reinhardt, Michael E. Johnson Troutman Sanders LLP, Alan M. Maxwell and John M. Hawkins Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Kopelman Kopelman Law Group PC, Robert L. Goldstucker and Benjamin S. Persons IV Nall & Miller LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Allen S. Willingham, Robert P. Monyak Love, Willingham, Peters Gilleland & Monyak LLP, Atlanta, and Matthew G. Nasrallah Robertson, Bodoh & Nasrallah LLP, Marietta.
    Case Number: A06A0540

    HIPAA preempts the medical record release requirement of O.C.G.A. § 9-1

  • King v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Albert B. Wallace and Stephen B. Wallace II Albert B. Wallace PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles J. Driebe, Keith C. Martin Driebe & Driebe PC, Jonesboro, and Howard P. Wallace Howard, Pelham & Wallace PC, Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0842

    The jury was authorized to draw its own conclusion regarding the extent of the decedent's lucidity or incapacity after viewing a videotape of the decedent's

  • Amstead v. McFarland

    Publication Date: 2006-06-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen L. Broughton Broughton & Fernandez, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert P. McFarland McFarland & Assocs., and Randall A. Meincke, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0001

    Attorney was entitled to of only the father's portion of $325K ement attorney procured for the wrongful death of the father and the mother's son, since the mother withdrew from the suit prior t