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  • In the Interest of S.B.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vicki E. Carter, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tony D. Coy, Athens, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso and Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Russell C. Gabriel University of Georgia Legal Aid Clinic, Athens, and John C. Shelton, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A0174

    Evidence that mother did not prevent her one-month-old daughter from being sexually molested and shaken to death supported the finding that her 16-month-old child was dep

  • Parker v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edwin A. Smith, Sandersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, and Samuel H. Altman, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0319

    The trial court properly refused to sever defendant's trial for two armed robberies since they occurred within a week of each other and both involved defendant holding a knife to a woman's throat an

  • Peachtree Plastics Inc. v. Verhine

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William R. Carlisle, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: John B. Degonia Jr., Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1826

    Although corporate defendant's answer was defective because the company president who filed it was not an att it cured the defect by submitting an amended answer filed by its att

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell D. Durham, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Debra H. Bernes and Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0069

    Defendant failed to show his attorney was ineffective merely because the attorney had an unfriendly relationship with the state's confidential informant stemming from his previous representation of

  • Burns v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael G. Schiavone and Steven L. Sparger Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1206

    On remand from the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals vacated defendant's sentence and remanded with direction that the trial court consider defendant for first offender treatment, since he was co

  • State v. Gehris

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph T. Bowden Jr., Solicitor, Gwendolyn R. Keyes, Solicitor General, David M. Zagoria and Pilar Gigante, Assistant Solicitors General, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Monte K. Davis, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1746

    City police officers who witnessed defendant's collision outside city limits did not relinquish their authority to investigate that incident just because they asked a county officer to investiga

  • State v. McTaggart

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, and Melodie S. Bedford, LaFayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sam F. Little Little, Adams, Bates & Kelehear PC, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1726

    Defendant who told police investigating a dog attack at his home, "do what you have to do and lock the gate when you're done" as he ran to his vehicle to meet the attack victim at the hospital did n

  • State v. Tucker

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, and Anthony C.L. Hing, Special Assistant District Attorney, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Reginald J.R. Bell Jr. and Mark L. Pickett Donaldson, Bell & Pickett PC, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0256

    Reliable confidential informant's tip giving specific details about defendant's transport of drugs that were corroborated by police officers' observations provided sufficient probable cause for sear

  • Deal v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Corbin, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and Stephen E. Spencer, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0374

    Under the Child Hearsay Statute, fathers of defendant's previous child molestation victims could testify about the victims' claims that defendant molested

  • Hood v. Spruill

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Mottern, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Louis R. Cohan Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0050

    Property buyers who admitted they were aware of roadway easement across the property at the time of purchase could not file a breach of warranty claim against the seller when they were sued for bloc