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  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-07-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cynthia W. Harrison, Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0489

    Because the court immediately instructed the jury to disregard the witness's remark that the defendant's fingerprints matched his criminal history, defendant was not entitled to a mis

  • Carter v. Digby

    Publication Date: 2000-07-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William G. Dobson Morriss, Lober & Dobson LLC, Macon, Daniel Shim and Bruce F. Morriss Bruce F. Morriss PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason K. Priebe Lawson & Priebe, and Bonne K. Cole, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0287

    The 6-month period for renewing an action begins on the date that the written voluntary dismissal is filed with the

  • Dennard v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank H. Childs Jr. Groover & Childs, and Amy Dever, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, and Katherine E. Kelley, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0606

    The indictment against defendant was not perfect in form since it did not identify the v

  • In the Interest of V.M.T.

    Publication Date: 2000-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brenda Godfrey Baskin & Baskin PC, Joseph T. Justice Clark & Justice, David J. Casey and Bobby G. Adkins Jr., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Williams C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso and Sanders B. Deen, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: William E. Brewer, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A0480, A00A0481

    Mother who could not tell that her child had sustained life-threatening injuries lacks the fundamental skills necessary to care for the child who now has special needs as a result of the extreme phy

  • Helmley v. Liberty County, Ga.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen D. Barr and Arvo H. Henifin Barr, Warner, Lloyd & Henifin, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Luther K. Davis, James N. Osteen Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold and Leon M. Braun Jr., Hinesville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A0534

    Plaintiffs' claim that the defendant's 20-year-old business violates a ant prohibiting the use of his property for commercial purposes is barred by the 2-year statute of limitation for breach o

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul Fryer, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Anthony E. Paulsen III, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2259

    Even if the defendant's a violated his Fourth Amendment rights, he was not entitled to a new trial because he did not claim that his conviction rested upon evidence seized as a result of his a

  • In the Interest of C.G.B.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard R. Schlueter, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Dennis R. Dunn, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, and Albert A. Myers III Mumford, Myers & Mooney, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Jeremy A. Moulton Moulton & Massey, Conyers.
    Case Number: A99A2231

    The trial court presumably disregarded inadmissible hearsay evidence from a DFACS caseworker's notes and the court-appointed special advocate's reports when it determined that termination of the mot

  • Sullivan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel C. Chapman III, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Thomas R. McBerry, Assistant, District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2213

    Although th ndant contended that many people had a motive to rob the victim, the fact that the victim was a drug dealer was not admissible because it did not raise a reasonable inference that t

  • In the Interest of B.R.W.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
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    Case Number: A99A2392, A99A2393

    The trial court considering parental rights termin did not have to give preference to the child's grandmother in placing the child after termin

  • State v. Gehris

    Publication Date: 2000-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph T. Bowden Jr., Solicitor, Gwendolyn R. Keyes, Solicitor General, David M. Zagoria and Pilar Gigante, Assistant Solicitors General, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Monte K. Davis, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1746

    City police officers who witnessed defendant's collision outside city limits did not relinquish their authority to investigate that incident just because they asked a county officer to investiga