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  • Exum v. Melton

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Converse Bright, Valdosta, and William Q. Bird Bird, Ballard & Still, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thomas S. Chambless and Charles K. Wainright II Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless, Albany, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A0846

    Although venue vanished when plaintiffs dismissed the only resident defendant, the trial court retained jurisdiction to consider defendant's motion to dismiss due to insufficiency of service of pr

  • Poetter v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Maddox, Jr. Thomas E. Maddox Jr. PC, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, Douglasville, for appellee. Other party representation: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary B. Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A0196

    Defendant's appeal from the transfer of his parole supervision was since he failed to deny superior court's finding that appeal was

  • Joe Ahearn a/k/a John Ahearn v. Westrec Management Inc. d/b/a Holiday on Lake Lanier

    Publication Date: 2000-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James L. Kraemer, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott M. Kaye and Norman G. Johnson Manchel, Johnson & Wiggins, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0863

    Because defendant did not cite the record or argue the merits of his appeal in his brief, the trial court's grant of partial summary judgment to the plaintiff was presumed co

  • Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2000-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles W. Barrow and Christine J. Bedingfield Barrow, Sims, Morrow, Lee & Gardner PC, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Charles R. Ashman and Jeffrey W. Lasky Ashman, Lasky & Cooper, Savannah, for appellees. Other party representation: Sewell K Loggins Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A0101

    Because the right to a jury trial does not apply to subrogation liens created under the workers' compensation statute, the workers' compensation insurer and the decedent's employer were not entitled

  • In the Interest of E.G.W.

    Publication Date: 2000-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ann N. Garner, Stone Mountain, and James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, George W.K. Snyder Jr., Senior Assistant District Attorney, and Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0769

    Evidence that the juvenile and his cohort were the only people near the victim when her purse was stolen and that they both fled the scene was sufficient to sustain the juvenile court's finding that

  • Welch v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold A. Sturdivant and Michele K. Ogletree Sullivan & Sturdivant, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, and Daniel A. Hiatt, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0572

    Forensic evidence and the victim's unequivocal identification of defendant was sufficient to prove he was the att

  • Wells v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carlton K. Nelson III, Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ralph M. Walke, District Attorney, and Tracie J. Hobbs, Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0086

    Evidence of a less than 10-percent disparity between the percentage of African-Americans in the county's 1990 census and the percentage of African-Americans in the entire jury venire did not support

  • In the Interest of L.S.D.

    Publication Date: 2000-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Saunders P. Jones IV, Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and Robert G. Nardone, Avondale Estates, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0024

    Although mother sought treatment for alcoholism after the petition to terminate her paren ghts was filed, the mother's prior physical abuse of her children supported the termination of her pare

  • In the Interest of A.D.

    Publication Date: 2000-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James B. McGee III McGee & McGee, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Charles R. Reddick Charles R. Reddick PC, Homerville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0118

    Evidence that mother was dominated by her husband and did nothing to protect her children from his sexual abuse supported the termination of her parental r

  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Feagle, Decatur, and Kris K. Skaar, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy and Keith E. Adams, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1906

    Erroneous admission of 6-year-old child's taped statement that her father beat her mother was harmless as the evidence was cumulative of the child's admissible res gestae statements and the victim's