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  • Morgan Cnty. Bd. of Tax Assessors v. Ward; Ward v. Morgan Cnty. Bd. of Tax Assessors

    Publication Date: 2012-10-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christian G. Henry, Madison, for appellant.
    for defendant: C. Wilson Dubose and Jennifer L. Pridgeon Dubose Massey Bair & Evans LLC, Madison, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0952; A12A1070

    The Morgan County Board of Tax Assessors failed to meet its threshold obligation under O.C.G.A. § 48-5-7.4 k.1 to provide the landowner with notice and opportunity to correct an alleged breach in he

  • Andrade v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Phillips, Public Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, and Juliet Aldridge District Attorney's Office, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1391

    Defense counsel was not deficient for failing to insist on a defense of habitation jury charge, since the evidence did not support such a charge and counsel's insistence would have been f

  • Beard v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason R. Hasty Public Defender's Office, Augusta, and Long D. Vo Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, Madonna M. Little, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorneys, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1587

    The evidence did not support the defendant's convictions for marijuana possession with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a housing pr

  • McCullough v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Smith, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: James B. Smith, District Attorney, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1253

    The trial court properly exercised its discretion in declining to grant the defendant's request to be sentenced as a first off

  • McRae v. Hogan

    Publication Date: 2012-10-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
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    Case Number: A12A0912; A12A1286

    The trial court failed to address the plaintiff's substantive claims of racial profiling, negligent supervision, negligent retention, and harassment in her suit alleging that the arresting officer r

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  • Smart v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leon Hicks, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jamie K. Inagawa, Solicitor General, and Joseph B. Myers, Assistant Solicitor General, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0902

    The evidence supported a used car dealer's convictions for having two unlicensed vehicles at his residential property in violation of a county ordi

  • Callaham v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-09-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Wadkins and Victoria Novak Public Defender's Office, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julia Slater, District Attorney, and Letitia Sikes Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1082

    The trial court's restitution order on retrial, along with a straight prison term with no probation, was proper even though it increased the defendant's original sen

  • Huff v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-08-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold Wallace, Public Defender, Thomson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis C. Sanders, District Attorney, Durwood Davis and Kevin Majeska, Assistant District Attorneys, Thomson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0972

    The intoxicated defendant refused to drop the golf club he was carrying when officers identified themselves, spit turkey and collard greens on one officer and resisted the officers when they tried t

  • Haynes v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-08-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Hicks and Amanda Gaddis Law Office of Gregory A. Hicks, Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry Moss, District Attorney, Cliff Head, Assistant District Attorney, and Lara Snow District Attorney's Office, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0811

    The Court vacated the defendant's sentence for sexual exploitation of children and remanded the case for resentencing because the trial court erred in finding that it could not deviate from the mand

  • Smith v. Cisco

    Publication Date: 2012-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brent Savage and Kathryn Pinckney Savage, Turner, Pinckney, & Madison, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jacquelyn Johnson, District Attorney, Nathan Williams Clark & Williams PC, Steven Blackerby, Terry Readdick, Brown Readdick Bumgartner Carter, Brunswick, and Andrew Ekonomou The Lambros Firm LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A0313; A12A0314

    In a state forfeiture action, the plaintiffs lacked standing to participate in the state's decision-making process concerning which property should be forf