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  • Navarro v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raymon D. Burns, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Matthew D. Crosby, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0537

    The defendant was not in custody when he answered the officers' knock at an apartment door, invited the officers inside, then admitted that he was at the scene of an aggravated assault and that he s

  • Holloway v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Adams Jr., Thomaston, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Cindy L. Spindler, Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, James E. Hardin, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, and Robert H. English, Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2112

    The defendant did not show that he could have produced an alibi if the state had narrowed the dates in his indictment for aggravated child molestation, child molestation and i

  • Warner v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: August F. Siemon III, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Raymond C. Mayer, Assistant District Attorney, and Andrea A. Newton District Attorney's Office, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1816

    The state failed to lay a proper chain of custody foundation for a blood test, which allegedly showed that the defendant had herpes and might have infected the rape v

  • Johnston v. Ross

    Publication Date: 2003-12-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John E. Kardos Kardos, Warnes & McElwee, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew J. Hill III and Josh B. Wages Blasingame, Burch, Garrard, Bryant & Ashley, Athens, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A1130

    Whether the defendant breached a duty created by the applicable housing code that required handrails on steps leading from the front porch of the home he rented to plaintiff was a jury

  • Aukerman v. Witmer

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James L. Paul and Eric C. White Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gary A. Barnes, Nancy E. Gordon Gambrell & Stolz LLP, Robert D. Feagin Decker & Hallman, Atlanta, and James H. Webb Jr. Webb, Stuckey & Lindsey, Peachtree City, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0077; A02A0716

    The plaintiff was not entitled to summary judgment on the defendants counterclaim for breach of fiduciary duty because there was some evidence that plaintiff engaged in unauthorized and unlawful acc

  • Wilbanks v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-09-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy P. Healy, Toccoa, for Wilbanks. William D. Healan III, Winder, for Michael Kozachyn. Thomas M. Strickland, Athens, for Paul Kozachyn. Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Jefferson, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A01A0918; A01A0919; A01A0920

    Defendants were not entitled to a change of venue because the news articles recounting their home invasion and arrests were devoid of inflammatory language and only nine of 60 venire people were exc