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  • Weiss v. Varnadore

    Publication Date: 2000-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: E. Jerrell Ramsey, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew H. Lakin, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1539

    The Court of Appeals could not determine what standard the trial court applied in granting joint custody to the mother and maternal grandmother under O.C.G.A. § 19-7-1

  • In the Interest of K.J.T.

    Publication Date: 2000-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Caroline A. Cormack and Billy C. Mathis Jr. Mathis Law Offices, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, and Gregory W. Edwards, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0936

    The trial court prematurely transferred the juvenile's case to superior court based on inconclusive evidence as to whether the juvenile should be committed to a mental instit

  • Wilkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean A. Black, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarkesville, and William C. Akins, Assistant District Attorney, Toccoa, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1634

    The prosecutor did not improperly comment on the defendant's right to remain silent by referring to defendant's refusal to give a blood sample when he was arr

  • Prock v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Sexton Lee Sexton & Assocs. PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Blair D. Mahaffey, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1809

    Defendant's guilty plea to a charge of selling alcohol to a minor did not bar his prosecution for possessing and selling mari

  • Malone v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Franklin J. Hogue Hogue & Hogue, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles H. Weston, District Attorney, Dorothy A. Vinson and Nancy S. Malcor, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1780

    The taped conversation between the molestation victim and the defendant did not violate O.C.G.A. § 16-11-62, which prohibits the recording of private telephone conversations, because the victim cons

  • Buchheit v. Gillis

    Publication Date: 2000-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas J. Mahoney Jr. and Mary K. Hogan Ranitz, Mahoney, Coolidge & Mahoney, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Donald E. Dyches Jr., Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2557

    The trial court did not err in submitting a special verdict form to the jury that required the jury to resolve the question of whether the plaintiffs acquired title to the disputed property through

  • Wade v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen J. Anderson, Winder, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Jefferson, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2101

    The trial court properly charged on the entire child cruelty statute because the state's comment that it was proceeding against the defendant on the mental cruelty portion of the indictment did not

  • Declue v. City of Clayton

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
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    Case Number: A00A0958, A00A1530

    The city's prior employment policies created no vested contract right because they specifically provided for periodic revision and annual r

  • Torres v. Putnam County

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
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    Case Number: A00A0977, A00A2501

    The county failed to state a cause of action in tort arising out of the defendants' use of their property in violation of the county's zoning ordi

  • Fowler v. Catoosa County

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A00A2445

    Dismissal of plaintiff's pro se lawsuit based on res judicata and collateral estoppel is affirmed as plaintiff failed to meet his burden of proving error on a