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  • 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

  • Martinez v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher T. Adams, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and James M. Miskell, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1815

    Defendant waived his objection to detective's testimony since he merely raised an anticipatory objection before the detective took the stand and did not object at the time the detective test

  • In the Interest of D.M.H.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby G. Adkins Jr., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and Sanders B. Deen, Assistant Attorney General, Marietta, for appellee. Other party representation: John P. Cheeley Cheeley & King PC, Duluth, William S. Hart, Joseph T. Justice Clark & Justice and Leopold B. Babin, Marietta.
    Case Number: A00A0234

    Evidence that a mother was homeless and abusing alcohol and drugs when she lost custody of her three children, that she had little contact with them and that currently she is unable to care for them

  • Kight v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Jones King & King & Jones PC and William R. Wansker, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, and Elizabeth A. Baker, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0424

    Parents' testimony that their 11-year-old daughters stated defendant molested them was admissible since there was no evidence that the girls were coached or threatened and the children testified and

  • Mintz v. Barlow

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Cauthorn III and Melissa J. M. Nohr Cauthorn & Assocs., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Flournoy III, Marietta, Richard A. Newton and Robert W. Kamerschen Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1801

    Plaintiff presented no evidence that defendant secretly negotiated to sell his property and corporation at a profit to a third party before he agreed to purchase plaintiff's interests in the land an

  • Boyle v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anna Blitz, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0396

    The trial court properly struck a prospective juror who repeatedly stated that she could not be impartial given her negative experience with law enforc

  • Garland v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Billy M. Grantham, Donalsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Anthony E. Paulsen III, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1653

    Defendant who knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to counsel and represented hi on the first day of trial could not claim that he ineffectively represented hi

  • Garrett v. McDowell

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A99A2079

    Tenant's challenges to the dispossessory judgment in favor of his landlord could not be considered since he did not file a transcript as part of the appellate r

  • Billups v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
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    Case Number: A00A0498, A00A0628, A00A0708

    Even if co-defendant truthfully testified that he alone committed the armed robbery and aggravated assault, evidence that the other three defendants accompanied him and talked and laughed about it a