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  • Peterson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0664

    The defendant initially told police that his 15-year-old girlfriend was fatally shot in a drive-by sho then blamed a family acquaintance, before finally taking responsibility for the sho

  • Dickson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Stephen M. Gray, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0931

    The defendant did not have adequate opportunity to cross-examine his deceased father about his pre-trial statement to an investigator at his bond hearing, which dealt with other issues and involved

  • State v. Norris

    Publication Date: 2006-09-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, and Cheri L. Nichols, Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, for appellant.
    for defendant: John W. Sherrer Jr., Vienna, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1023

    The defendant's detention ripened into a custodial arrest for DUI when the arresting officer told him to put his hands behind his back, so the arresting officer was required to give Miranda warning

  • Robinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Veronica E. Brinson, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, and Dorothy V. Hull, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1163

    The victims in two armed robberies at commercial businesses in Macon identified the defendant as the man who posed as a customer, pulled out a gun, demanded cash and fled with the stolen

  • Northlake Med. Ctr. LLC v. Queen

    Publication Date: 2006-08-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel S. Reinhardt, Michael E. Johnson Troutman Sanders LLP, Alan M. Maxwell and John M. Hawkins Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Kopelman Kopelman Law Group PC, Robert L. Goldstucker and Benjamin S. Persons IV Nall & Miller LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Allen S. Willingham, Robert P. Monyak Love, Willingham, Peters Gilleland & Monyak LLP, Atlanta, and Matthew G. Nasrallah Robertson, Bodoh & Nasrallah LLP, Marietta.
    Case Number: A06A0540

    HIPAA preempts the medical record release requirement of O.C.G.A. § 9-1

  • Valdosta Hotel Properties LLC v. White

    Publication Date: 2006-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven J. Misner Misner, Scott & Martin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy C. Mann Mann & Mann, and Charles M. Cork III Gambrell & Stolz LLC, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1661

    The appellee was not entitled to rely on the renewal statute to maintain a personal injury action against appellant, since she failed to make appellant a party to her original action prior to volunt

  • Haggins v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Orin L. Alexis, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Isabel M. Pauley, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2327

    The evidence supported the defendant's convictions for aggravated assault and firearms offenses, despite the victim's recantation of his identification of the defendant as his shooter at

  • Fitz v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen P. Harrison Harrison & Harrison, and Jacqualine M. Magistro-Hyde, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Atha H. Pryor, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0974

    The officer had probable cause to continue questioning the defendant based on his extreme nervousness and the conflicting and odd answers to the officer's ques

  • Carden v. Carden

    Publication Date: 2005-10-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Mack Jr., Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald F. DeFoor DeFoor & Jones, and Adam G. Jett Jr. Jett & Liss, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0853

    Consent order involving real property in Fulton county was unenforceable, since it failed to sufficiently identify the property under the statute of f

  • Hampton v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin T. Hampton, Helena, proceeded pro se. Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Jeffrey W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S05A1168

    The murder defendant's numerous claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel were meri