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  • Crowder v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-09-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin D. Goldberg The Bernstein Firm, Atlanta, and Amanda L. Cosson, Assistant Public Defender, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and Susan L. Franklin, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1601

    The defendant served the state with notice of intent to introduce the victim's conviction the day after jury selection, thus, providing no advance notification as required under O.C.G.A. § 24-9-8

  • Richardson v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edwin J. Wilson, Snellville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Robby A. King District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0331

    The defendant's 30-year sen did not amount to an act of retaliation for his rejection of a plea deal with a lower sen

  • Rucker v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-06-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela B. Dillon, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amelia G. Pray and Albert T. Reeves Jr., Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0704

    The defendant failed to satisfy his burden of proving ' "an infringement of his rights or a procedural irregularity" ' with regard to his prior plea to cocaine possession, after the state proved the

  • McGowan v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Lamb, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2288

    The trial court did not improperly bolster the victim's credibility in allowing the victim's mother and the treating nurse and doctor to testify, because the witnesses were testifying on their opini

  • Reynolds Properties, Inc. v. Bickelmann

    Publication Date: 2009-11-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristine R. Tarrer, Eatonton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas P. Allen III Martin Snow LLP, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: Ned Blumenthal Weissman, Nowak, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A09A1164

    A realty was not entitled to a commission where the buyers and sellers agreed to terminate the real estate sales contract and to release all parties from their responsibil

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas C. Vassy, Solicitor General, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1141

    A state trooper had authority to do to the door of the defendant's apartment in the court of his DUI investig

  • Allison v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-09-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A08A1242

    The officer discovered methamphetamine on the defendant's person pursuant to the defendant's consent to a pat-down s

  • Navarro v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-08-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A08A1372

    The evidence supported the defendant's conviction for methamphetamine traffi

  • Hyde v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-06-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A08A0121

    The defendant was not entitled to a mistrial, after an officer testified that he was a convicted felon, since defense counsel did not renew his motion following the trial court's curative instru

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-05-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A08A0055

    Evidence of the defendant's status as convicted felon was relevant to establishing the crime with which he was charged, since the state had to prove that the defendant was in lawful custody when