• In the Interest of J.N.F.

    Publication Date: 2010-10-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barbara K. Nye, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Other party representation: Posha Vance, Temporary Guardian, Birmingham, Ala.

    Case Number: A10A1320

    The juvenile court did not abuse its discretion in requiring the mother to complete all aspects of her drug rehabilitation program and remaining drug free before it would reconsider the deprivation

  • Solomon v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronnie K. Batchelor, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Rodney K. Miles, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A1070

    Investigator's testimony that he used defendant's mug shot in a pretrial photographic line-up did not place defendant's character in

  • Moss v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Sexton Lee Sexton & Assocs. PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, James L. Wright III and Blair D. Mahaffey, Assistant District Attorneys, McDonough, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A1176

    Trial court properly admitted defendant's confession to Department of Family and Children Services, since he gave it voluntarily in a non-custodial setting, and neither DFACS nor the police promised

  • Wilkerson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-07-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel H. Harrison Harrison & Harrison, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Rodney K. Miles, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A1507

    The charge as a whole properly distinguished the defendants' separate indictments for aggravated assault and instructed the jury to return a separate verdict on each

  • McFadden v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft III, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, Bonnie K. Smith and Lalaine A. Briones, Assistant District Attorneys, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A1148

    The trial court had authority to determine the sufficiency of the factual basis of the defendant's guilty plea, in part, through the state's att

  • In the Interest of S.T., K.T. and M.T.

    Publication Date: 2000-06-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas J. Gustinella, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, John R. Strother III Duffy, Feemster & Lewis LLC and Linda J. Carter, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A1245

    The mother's failure to comply with her case plan, her voluntary absence from her children, and her inability to support her children or provide a home for them clearly supported the finding that te

  • In the Interest of M.C.

    Publication Date: 2000-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Regina E. McMillan Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson & Patterson, Riverdale, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Thomas B. Hammond, Thomson, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0926

    Evidence of father's drug convictions and lack of attempt to visit or establish a bond with his child supported termination of his parental r

  • Phagan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick C. Kaufman, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, and Charles K. Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A1022

    The evidence showed that the burglar entered the automobile dealership through a broken window and that the defendant was arrested inside the dealership with a bleeding

  • Rahman v. Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold L. Kennedy III and Harvey L. Kennedy Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy & Kennedy, Winston-Salem, N.C., and Victor A. McLemore, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nancy K. Deming and Carmie L. McCurry Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, Elizabeth Honeywell and Paul D. Barker Jr. Venable, Baetjer & Howard LLP, Baltimore, Md., for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0685

    Since plaintiff did not pay her appeal costs or file an affidavit of indigency, the state court properly dismissed her appeal on the ground that the delay in transmitting the record was unreasonable

  • Anatek Inc. v. CSX Realty Dev. LLC

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin R. Armbruster Cushing, Morris, Armbruster & Jones, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher W. Phillips Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0562

    The plaintiff's contract with the defendant's lessee for improvements to the leased premises did not subject the defendant's property to an enforceable lien because there was no contractual relation