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  • Greene v. Bryant

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore H. Lackland, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Stephen M. Schatz, Melissa K. Kahren Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, Brian S. Bischoff, James E. Bischoff Bischoff & White PC, and Paul S. Liston, Fayetteville, for appellees. Other party representation: Howard G. Slade, Fayetteville.
    Case Number: A05A1646

    It did not appear that the jury was inflamed by the trial court's error in admitting evidence that the first appellant was incarcerated for a bribery conviction at the time of the trial, since the j

  • Chandler v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-01-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1617

    The trial court's communication with the jury had no effect on the ve

  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard K. Murray, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, and Patricia K. Atwill, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1201; A05A1202

    The superior court had concurrent jurisdiction with the juvenile court over a 1974 armed robbery offense, which the defendant committed when he was 16 year

  • Bearden v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Elisabeth G. MacNamara and Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1140

    Other evidence corroborated the accomplice's testimony that the defendant committed three smash-and-grab burgl

  • Cantera v. American Heritage Life Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2005-07-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James G. Tunison Jr., Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . G. G. Joseph Kunes Jr. Kunes Law Office, Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0743

    The trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant in an interpleader action regarding the amount due under three life insurance policies issued on his wife because there is a genui

  • Dixon v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Public Defender, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and David E. Boyle, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0393

    The officers had probable cause to stop the defendants' vehicle in connection with their investigation into the theft and abandonment of a utility trailer, since the defendants' truck matched the BO

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Robinson III, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0328

    Evidence that the defendant pleaded guilty to two crimes involving the taking of computers or computer equipment from office buildings late at night was admissible to show his identity, course of co

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Norman Davis, Waycross, proceeded pro se. J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Charles M. Stines, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, and Joseph K. Mulholland District Attorney's Office, Albany, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A05A0745

    The trial did not abuse its discretion in requiring the defendant to proceed pro se on his motion for new trial because his conduct in serially dismissing and instituting grievances against si

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-05-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Watkins, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Sandra G. Rivers, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0242

    The defendant did not invoke his Fifth Amendment right to counsel when he asked for and was appointed counsel to represent him on unrelated charges prior to confessing to an attempted bur

  • Salmeron v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-05-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ricky W. Morris Jr. and J. Scott Key Sexton & Morris PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Blair D. Mahaffey, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0636

    The arresting officer did not unreasonably expand the scope or dur of a valid traffic stop when he asked for and was granted permission to search the defendant's car while he was issuing the cit