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  • Hurston v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Jeffery W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1971

    Jurors' unauthorized visits to the accident scene did not contribute to the defendant's conviction in light of the jurors' unanimous affidavits stating that the visits had no effect upon their ve

  • Amend v. 485 Properties

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce P. Brown and Thuy N. Vu McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jill Warner and Peter B. Glass Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05Q1462

    Real estate brokers must prove that they are the procuring cause of a sale in order to recover for the value of their services in quantum m

  • Blackwood v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William H. Clerke IV, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2120

    Evidence that the defendant helped to weigh out 32.64 grams of methamphetamine and placed it in bags for purchase by an undercover GBI agent supported his methamphetamine trafficking convi

  • Norris v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James J. Anagnostakis, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrolton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0377

    The trial judge did not participate in the plea process when he responded negatively to defense counsel's requests for assurance that he would not sentence the defendant to more than the state's 30-

  • Ladzinske v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. M. Raffaur, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott W. Peters, Nathan M. Wheat, David H. Flint Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Atlanta, Eugene C. Reed Jr., William J. Linkous III and Viviane H. Ernstes DeKalb County Law Dept., Decatur, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A1866

    Plaintiff could not directly appeal the dismissal of his suit arising after the county department of public works declared a charter school to be exempt from local ordinances and granted all necessa

  • Rhodes v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter M. Zeliff Head, Thomas, Webb & Willis, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven L. Harris, Solicitor General, and Joseph B. Myers Jr., Assistant Solicitor, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2028

    The trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion for discharge and acquittal following a mistrial after the jury deadl

  • Rosas v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Jeffrey W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, and Raymond C. Mayer, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1367

    An officer's request for consent to search for drugs during the course of a brief, on-going traffic stop does not, in and of itself, violate the Fourth Amendment so as to make a valid detention "ill

  • Giddens v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin W. Drummond, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1559

    Any error in the trial court's charge on aggravated assault was harmless, since the defendant admitted that his actions would constituted aggravated assault, unless the jury found that he acted in s

  • Garrison v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Jeffrey W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1618

    Two accomplices identified the defendant as one of four gunmen who participated in a home invasion and officers found the defendant's fingerprints on the getawa

  • Rosas v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Jeffrey W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, and Raymond C. Mayer, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1367

    An officer's request for consent to search for drugs during the course of a brief, on-going traffic stop does not, in and of itself, violate the Fourth Amendment so as to make a valid detention "ill