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  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Augustus T. Curtis, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harry N. Gordon, District Attorney, and Gerald W. Brown, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1091

    Defendant was entitled to a new sentencing hearing because he did not have the opportunity to present evidence on the validity of his prior guilty pleas which the state used in aggravation of his sen

  • Powell v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jon V. Forehand Allen & Forehand, Moultrie, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, and Andrew W. Pope, Assistant District Attorney, Moultrie, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1754

    The officers' search for safety purposes of the bedroom in which they a d the defendant did not exceed the scope of a search incident to a

  • Terrell v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Gomez, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0442

    Defendant's conviction could not stand because the state failed to prove that victim was under 16 years old when defendant allegedly moleste

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David T. Wooten, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harry N. Gordon, District Attorney, and John A. Pursley, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0272

    Trial court properly allowed the state to introduce a bench warrant for defendant's arrest that was issued after defendant failed to appear for

  • Graham v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emmett J. Arnold, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Erman J. Tanjuatco, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2301

    Defendant was not entitled to an equal access charge regarding drugs found in his co-defendant's truck since the court did not charge that he was presumed to possess the drugs merely because he was

  • Ward v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Willie C. Weaver Weaver Law Offices, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, and Richard E. Thomas, Assistant District Attorney, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2270

    A videotape of the perpetrator and testimony regarding the stolen merchandise corroborated the defendant's confession that he entered the grocery store with a shirt over his head and stole beer and