• Evans v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael E. Garner, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julie A. Slater, District Attorney, and Moieh E. Konan, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A2153

    The trial court properly admitted evidence of two similar transactions in the defendant's trial for sexual contact with a psychotherapist client and the child molestation of a 14-year old

  • Lynn v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandi D. Payne Public Defender's Office, Swainsboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel H. Altman, District Attorney, Tony A. May, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, and Adriane L. Love, Assistant District Attorney, Lyons, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1810

    The trial court did not err in admitting evidence of the defendant's molestation of his former girlfriend's 14-year-old daughter as a similar transaction to show his lustful disposition and bent of

  • Gober v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell D. Durham, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman and Kathryn E. Cozzo, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1924

    The trial court properly admitted a key witness's prior inconsistent statement as substantive evi

  • Thornton v. Hemphill

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William H. Turner Jr. and Douglas R. Ballard Jr. Fears, Lawrence & Turner PC, Jackson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Winifred Hemphill, Atlanta, proceeded pro se.

    Case Number: A09A1928

    Evidence that the defendant contacted the pla via abusive emails numerous times, placed her under surveillance on several occasions without her consent, and ventured onto the property where pl

  • Martin v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steve D. Knittle, Assistant Public Defender, Cordele, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, and Matthew P. Brown District Attorney's Office, Cordele, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1992

    The trial court properly excluded impeachment evidence of a witness's misdemeanor shoplifting conviction, absent a showing that the conviction involved fraud or d

  • Davis v. The Harpagon Co. LLC

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Francis X. Moore Frank X. Moore & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michelle L. Thomas DeKalb County Law Dep't., Robert J. Proctor, Bradley A. Hutchins, John C. Clark Proctor Hutchins, William A. Castings Jr., Atlanta, and John E. Robinson, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1735

    The dismissal of the appellant's appeal of the grant of a writ of possession to appellee was mandatory under O.C.G.A. § 9-7-22 c, since Davis failed to pay the assessed special master's

  • Pinkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Erickson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1636

    The pretrial photographic line-up was not impermissibly sugge

  • Wilcox v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Morgan III, Abbeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, Cheri L. Nichols and Henry O. Jones III, Assistant District Attorneys, Cordele, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1835

    Forcible resistance is not required to prove misdemeanor obstru

  • Paramount Tax and Accounting LLC v. H & R Block E. Enters. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer I. Robertson and Mark W. Alexander Stewart, Melvin & Frost LLP, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . J. Matthew Maguire Jr., Robert F. Glass Balch & Bingham LLP, David M. Kight and Chad C. Beaver Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne LLP, Kansas City, Mo., for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1996

    The Court reversed a contempt judgment for violating an invalid injun

  • Harper v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael R. McCarthy, Public Defender, and Benjamin D. Goldberg, Assistant Public Defender, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and Stephen E. Spencer, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A1977

    The defendant waived his right to seek post-conviction relief when he became a fugitive before filing any post-conviction motions and remained a fugitive during the entire time in which he could hav