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  • In the Interest of N.T.S.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William L. Jones, LaGrange, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, and Louis J. Kirby, Solicitor General, LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1783

    Detectives' testimony did not establish venue, since they gave only the name of the street where they investigated the juvenile defendant's fight and not the name of the city or county where it was

  • Booker v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monique D. Moyse, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2464

    After its witness recanted his pretrial statement inculpating defendant, the state improperly attempted to bolster his pretrial credibility by showing that he truthfully inculpated other defendants

  • Summerhill Neighborhood Dev. Corp. v. Telerent Leasing Corp.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Albert L. Norton Jr. and Sherrod J. Waites II Hipes & Norton PC, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: William E. Turnipseed Savell & Williams, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0268

    Parties' agreement for defendant's use of telephone equ installed by plaintiff was a lease, not a secured transaction, since it clearly stated that defendant had no property interest in the eq

  • Woodson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen T. Smith, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2110

    Before sentencing defendant as a recidivist, the trial court should have determined whether his five prior out-of-state felony convictions were for conduct that would have constituted felonies in Ge

  • Jordan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerome C. McKee, Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Benjamin M. First, Special Assistant District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2275

    Evidence that office manager issued over $50,000 in unauthorized checks from her employer's account made out to herself, her cousin and her fianc supported her convictions on 31 counts of fo

  • Brewer v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael R. McCarthy, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and Stephen E. Spencer, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A98A1672

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that defendant's aggravated sodomy conviction should be vacated since the state presented no evidence that he used force to commit sodomy ag

  • Hamilton v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Tracy, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Victoria Spear-Darrisaw, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0605

    Informant's testimony that he discovered defendant was selling cocaine out of his home was admissible to show the circumstances leading to defendant's a

  • Accolades Apartments LP v. Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
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    Case Number: A00A0143, A00A0144

    Creditors of joint venture's individual members could place liens against joint venture's property, since deed conveying property to joint venture did not state that a partnership interest ex

  • Brandon v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1824

    The trial court should not have charged that the jury did not have to believe incredible, impossible or inherently improbable testimony, since defendant's claimed alibi was not impossible as running

  • Bearden v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney L. Mathis, Calhoun, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Cartersville, and Rebecca B. Paris, Assistant District Attorney, Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0189, A00A0190

    The trial court properly denied a continuance to defendant who waited until the Saturday before trial to try to hire an att