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  • In the Interest of M. A. M.

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carla J. Friend, 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, and Robert E. Hall, Special Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0816

    The mother had a history of violence and seriously neglected her

  • In the Interest of K.W.

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gresham H. Harrison Harrison & Harrison, Lawrenceville, 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 Barry S. Haney Neel & Smith, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0403

    The South Carolina Department of Social Services maintained legal custody of th d placed in the custody of his paternal aunt and uncle in Georgia, since it never abdicated its jurisdiction to t

  • Anderson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul K. Cook, Vidalia, for appellant.
    for defendant: R. Joseph Martin III, District Attorney, Statesboro, and Keith A. McIntyre, Assistant District Attorney, Springfield, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0420

    The officer had probable cause to continue questioning the defendant based on his extreme nervousness and the conflicting stories defendant and his passenger told the officer about their itin

  • Diegel v. Dew

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brent Diegel, Buford, proceeded pro se. Carol S. Dew, Monroe, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A0460

    The parties' contract requiring the defendant to file a petition to terminate the plaintiff's parental rights was

  • Gardner v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shandor S. Badaruddin, Missoula, Mont., for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0370

    The trial court properly denied the defendant's untimely motion to pursue a mental illness de

  • Lopez v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-04-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephanie S. Benfield Stuckey & Manheimer LLC, Decatur, for Lopez. Wystan B. Getz Clark & Towne PC, Lawrenceville, for Medrano. Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A0470; A03A0471

    The trial court did not err in failing to give the first defendant's requested charge on false imprisonment since the evidence established that there was either a kidnapping or no detention-related

  • Cain v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-03-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tony L. Axam Axam, Axam & Secret PA, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Eric K. Dunaway, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2426

    The defendant falsely represented to an investigating officer that he was a county officer and displayed a

  • Toliver v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald K. Spivey, Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, Lafayette, and Douglas R Woodruff, Assistant District Attorney, Ringgold, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1805

    Defendant maintained a lookout for his wife while she replaced the bar codes of three expensive items with lower p

  • Builder Marts of Am. Inc. v. Gilbert

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William K. Carmichael and David M. Lilenfeld Stokes, Lazarus & Carmichael LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick J. Fox McNally, Fox, Mahler & Cameron, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1454

    A 1998 agreement which modified the terms of the parties or agreement released the guarantor from liability because the guarantor did not expressly consent to renewal or modification of the o

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Victoria D. Little, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1588; A02A1589

    The trial court improperly declared a mistrial in defendant's first criminal prosecution where defense counsel's conduct, though contemptuous, did not make it impossible for the trial to pr