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  • Almond v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles E. Day, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1185

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting digital photographs after the state authenticated them as fair and acc

  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory A. Hicks and James K. Luttrell, Woodstock, for Thomas. Carlton C. Carter, Canton, for Taborn. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Maria B. Golick, Dana J. Norman, Jack E. Mallard, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S01A0146; S01A0321

    Evidence obtained by foreign police is generally admissible regardless of whether foreign authorities comply with the Fourth Amen

  • The Best Jewelry Mfg. Co. Inc. v. ARC Sec. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael N. Weathersby and Roger C. Wilson Evert & Weathersby, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Malcolm Smith Lokey & Smith, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Sewell K. Loggins and Jennifer E. Theobold Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins LLP, David M. Brown and Jason S. Bell Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A01A0433

    The plaintiff's suit arising out of a jewelry theft at an airport security checkpoint was barred by the 2-year time limitation on claims for loss or damage to baggage which was expressly incorporat

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek H. Jones, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Eleanor A. Kornahrens, Maria B. Golick and Bruce D. Hornbuckle, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2193

    The evidence did not support defendant's aggravated battery conviction because the scratches and bruises which the victim suffered when defendant tried to rape her only temporarily impaired her appea

  • Ajayi v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dawn G. Benson and Charles K. Wainright II Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jerry W. Brimberry Jr. Brimberry, Kaplan & Brimberry PC, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2471

    Defendant's failure to furnish plaintiff's medical records pursuant to plaintiff's request under O.C.G.A. § 9-3-97-1 tolled the statute of limitation on plaintiff's medical malpractice

  • Woody v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael K. McKinney and Richard A. Jones Ray & McKinney, Ellijay, for appellant.
    for defendant: roger Queen, District Attorney, and William B. Britt, Assistant District Attorney, Ellijay, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0104

    The Court of Appeals dismissed the defendant's discretionary appeal as improvidently gr

  • Kodadek v. Lieberman

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neal H. Howard, Joann B. Williams and William D. James Neal H. Howard PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Elaine W. Whitehurst, Cumming, for appellees. Other party representation: Alan M. Maxwell Long, Weinberg, Ansley & Wheeler, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A2550

    The plaintiffs were not entitled to a new trial based on hearsay testimony that the jury bet on the outcome of the

  • Georgia Dept. of Human Resources v. Coley

    Publication Date: 2001-01-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, John C. Jones, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Bruce M. Edenfield and Robert L. Bunner Gray Hedrick & Edenfield LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John A. Lawson Lawson & Priebe, Jason K. Priebe and Charles E. Cox Jr., Macon, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1491

    Under the Georgia Tort Claims Act, the state was immune from a suit involving the strangulation of the plaintiff's brother at a state hos

  • Williams v. Young M.D. PC

    Publication Date: 2001-01-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank J. Klosik Jr., Jason R. Manton and Robert J. McCune Green, Klosik & Daugherty, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas S. Chambless, Dawn G. Benson Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless and Charles K. Wainright II, Albany, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1393

    The Court of Appeals adopted the continuous treatment doctrine and concluded that plaintiff's medical malpractice claim was not barred as a matter of law because she filed her claim within two years

  • Payne v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellis R. Garnett, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1679

    Defendant was not entitled to a mistrial based on the prosecutor's closing argument that defendant's voluntary use of alcohol and drugs did not excuse his co