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  • In the Interest of D. B. P.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William O. Tullis Jr., Blairsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Stephanie B. Hope, Special Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Robbie E. Colwell, Special Assistant Attorney General, Blairsville, for appellee. Other Party Representation: Riley White, Susan Ledford Union County DFCS, and John Andrews, Blairsville.
    Case Number: A03A0140

    Clear and convincing evidence supported the termination of the mother's parental rights where she continued to abuse drugs, r to end her abusive relationship with one child's putative father,

  • Watson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. King, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor, and Tasha M. Mosley, Assistant Solicitor General, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0769

    Evidence that the defendant ran across the yard towards her neighbor after the two exchanged unpleasant words and engaged in a scuffle for several minutes authorized the jury to reject her claim of

  • Nguyen v. Lumbermens Mut. Cas. Co.

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam S. Jaffe, Atlanta, for Nguyen. Brenda K. Orrison Porter & Barrett, Atlanta, for Lumbermens Mut. Cas. Co. Other Party Representation: Barry L. Anderson Schweber, Izenson & Anderson, Atlanta.
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    Case Number: A03A0330; A03A0331

    A surety acted reasonably in paying $50,000 to a third-party financial services company after an audit show that that several mortgage loans procured through the defendant were fraud

  • Simonette v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephanie S. Benfield Stuckey & Manheimer LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0610

    The trial court's error in failing to give the defendant's requested jury instruction on impeachment by proof that the witness has been convicted of a crime of moral turpitude was har

  • Tiller v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven A. Cook, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Laura J. Murphee and Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0270

    The officer's prolonged detention of driver and search of vehicle after valid traffic stop was illegally based on hearsay evidence from an unknown ti

  • Cotting v. Cotting

    Publication Date: 2003-06-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven R. Cotting, Atlanta, proceeded pro se. Terri A. Candler Weekes & Candler, Decatur, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A03A0540; A03A0541

    The trial court abused its discretion in awarding $7,000 in attorneys' fees to the wife, pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 9-15-14, in husband's suit to enforce the parties' divorce settlement agreement, witho

  • Black v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Diane M. Moore, Jasper, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, Sandra G. Rivers and Thomas R. McBerry, Assistant District Attorneys, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0454

    The evidence supported the defendant's conviction for molesting his 13-year-old stepdau

  • In the Interest of J. P. V.

    Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sheryl D. Fambrough, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and John R. Laseter, Special Assistant Attorney General, Monroe, for appellee. Other party representation: David F. Dickinson Dickinson, Mixson & Willis, G. Randolph Jeffery John W. Spence PC and Renee Skipper, Social Worker, Monroe.
    Case Number: A03A0232

    The mother's history of mental health problems and inability to refrain from drug and alcohol abuse supported the termination of her parental r

  • State v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, and Paul A. Shorstein, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Xavier C. Dicks, Stone Mountain, and David R. Trainor, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0183

    The officer lacked probable cause to detain the defendant based solely on defendant's nervousness when the officer approached him in a motel bree

  • Keilholtz v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael R. Hauptman, Atlanta, and Thomas M. Witcher Witcher & Witcher, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker and Candace K. Slezak, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0306

    Defendant's denial that he owned the car containing the drugs was admissible since he was neither detained nor seized when he first denied that the car keys found in plain view in his hotel room wer