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  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Mack Jr., Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor, and Michael L. Tripp, Assistant Solicitor General, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1145

    The defendant did not raise an affirmative defense when she claimed that she was justified in tossing the officers around and kicking one of them since the state had to prove that the officers were

  • Jordan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Sussman, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1839

    Defense counsel did not have to object to admission of a document indicating that co-defendant tried to influence a state witness to lie, since he may have wished to avoid connecting that document t

  • Glore v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amelia G. Pray, Austell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Andrew J. Saliba, Debra H. Bernes and Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1841

    The defendant was not denied effective assistance of counsel since his attorney's closing argument was "nothing short of brilliant" and his actions were trial str

  • In the Interest of J.B.H.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas M. Witcher, Bremen, for appellant.
    for defendant: James R. Osborne, District Attorney, Cedartown, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1642

    Evidence that the juvenile previously choked his sister, attacked other students at a detention center and was charged with breaking a boy's nose while in "lock-up" supported the juvenile court's fi

  • Brown v. Allied Printing Ink Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raymond J. O'Reilly Raymond O'Reilly & Assocs. PC, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert J. Wilson Webb, Tanner & Powell LLP, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1650

    The plaintiff failed to established that the defendant violated his civil rights when the defendant fired him for testing positive for cocaine, since there was no evidence that the plaintiff's rand

  • State v. Garnett

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Kevin T. Almeroth, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank G. Cardillo Simon, Booth, Cook & Cardillo PC, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1756

    Officer's failure to read the last word of the implied consent warning did not alter warning's substance such that defendant's refusal to submit to blood testing should be suppr

  • Felix v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellis C. Smith and James C. Thornton, Lagrange, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Todd A. Orston, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A98A1566

    On remand from the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals found that police officers did not illegally execute a search warrant by waiting only five to ten seconds after knocking on defendants' door be

  • Lowe v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold S. Gulliver, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Maria Murcier-Ashley and Jeanne M. Canavan, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0307

    Defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to request a mere presence charge since the overwhelming evidence showed that defendant actively participated in the bur

  • In the Interest of V.H.W. & S.D.R.W.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mario S. Ninfo Ninfo & Ledbetter, Covington, and Richard K. Milford Milford & Milford, Carnesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas A. Camp, 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: Nadine D. Bailey, Athens, and Victor Y. Johnson Graham & Assocs., Danielsville.
    Case Number: A00A0125

    Mother's neglecting her children, failing to provide financial support while they were in foster care and failing to comply with reunification plan supported termination of her parental r

  • Hopson v. Kennestone Hosp. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank J. Beltran and Charlotte K. Perrell Beltran & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Henry D. Green Jr. and David V. Johnson Browning & Tanksley LLP, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1852

    The defendant's failing to object to her former husband's request for her drug rehabilitation records from the plaintiff hospital did not waive her patient-psychiatrist privilege since privileged ma