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  • Lemming v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall S. Estes, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1842

    The jury was authorized to find from the circumstantial evidence that the second victim was in reasonable apprehension of imminent harm of a violent injury arising from a tiny keychain knife the de

  • Hogan v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-03-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Renate D. Moody, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, and Dorothy V. Hull, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0770

    The trial court did not did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of the defendant's similar sexual offenses against children of the same age and gender, which took place up to eight years

  • Harris v. Griffin

    Publication Date: 2005-03-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sherard K. Dixon Huff, Powell & Bailey LLC, Roderick E. Edmond and Craig T. Jones, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James E. Brim III Forrester & Brim, Gainesville, and Heather C. McGrotty Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0576

    The defendant was not entitled to summary judgment based on his argument that he and the plaintiff had no doctor-patient relationship, because the defendant saw the plaintiff as a new patient, took

  • Stephens v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-03-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Ralston, Blue Ridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Janet P. Clay Cobb County Solicitor General's Office, Marietta, and Michael K. McKinney Ray & McKinney, Ellijay, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1607

    An officer found the defendant passed out behind the steering wheel of a parked vehicle with the engine running and the defendant failed a field sobriety

  • In re Hutchison

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and K. Gene Chapman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Brian R. Hutchison, Warrenville. C. Bradford Marsh, Chairperson Review Panel, Atlanta.
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    Case Number: S04Y0533

    An attorney who was disbarred in Illinois for commingling and converting client funds was disbarred in Ge

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1160

    The jury was authorized to find that the defendant was a party to the crime of the felony murder of a cab driver based on evidence that he accompanied his co-indictee, knowing that the co-indictee i

  • Stephens v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-11-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Ralston, Blue Ridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael K. McKinney Ray & McKinney, Ellijay, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1607

    An officer found the defendant passed out behind the steering wheel of a parked vehicle occupying two parking spaces in a restaurant parking lot with the engine running and defendant failed a field

  • Wilson v. J & L Melton Inc. d/b/a McDonald's Restaurant

    Publication Date: 2004-10-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa D. Wright, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce A. Taylor Jr. and Douglas K. Burrell Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1725

    The plaintiff could not recover damages for mental distress from eating french fries contaminated by blood from the defendant's "fry man" in the absence of any evidence of actual exposure to HIV or

  • Morrison Homes of Fla. Inc. v. Wade

    Publication Date: 2004-04-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Phillip Beggs and Amy K. Weber Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Russell D. King and Patrick N. Millsaps Dupree, Poole & King, Marietta, for appellees. Other party representation: George L. Welborn Downey, Cleveland, Parker & Williams, Marietta.
    Case Number: A03A2289

    The damages awarded to the plaintiffs on their claims arising from the building of their home were within the range of the evidence because the contractor they hired to inspect the home provided a d

  • Cox v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2004-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven K. Leibel and Michael T. McCulley Casey, Gilson & Leibel PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jerry L. DeLoach, Deputy City Attorney, and Serena L. Sparks, Assistant City Attorney, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A2387

    The plaintiffs failed to show that the defendants were strangers to the plaintiffs' contract to provide security for a baseball st