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  • Jaheni v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barbara B. Claridge, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0193

    Convictions for several felonies arising out of a robbery and car theft did not violate the defendant's double jeopardy rights, since they did not require proof of the same elements involved in cert

  • Burns v. Leap

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sharon T. McCoy and Lance T. McCoy The McCoy Law Firm, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter R. York Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0037

    No evidence showed that the defendant was aware that the horse which kicked the plaintiff had a vicious propensity as required for liability pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 5

  • Balotin v. Simpson

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emmitte H. Griggs and Norman C. Pearson III Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs LLP, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Mark L. Stuckey, Macon, for appellees. Other party representation: Terrell W. Benton III Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, and Richard A. Epps Jr. Martin Snow LLP, Macon.
    Case Number: A07A0605

    The 5-year statute of repose barred the plaintiffs' claims arising from the defendants' alleged failure to notice a pancreatic tumor on a March 2001 CT

  • McCoy v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-05-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Frier, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Peggy A. Katz, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0011

    The arresting officer had probable cause to believe that the defendant was a participant in the armed robbery of a warehouse that housed a flea market based on a report of a robbery in progress, his

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-05-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney E. Davis, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan R. Tawse Jr., Solicitor General, and Arthur J. Creque, Assistant Solicitor General, Warner Robins, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0425

    The defendant's flight did not constitute obstruction, because the arresting officer, did not activate his lights or siren, attempt to stop the defendant's vehicle or order the defendant to halt whe

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  • Cartledge v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-05-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0003

    Two of the defendant's accomplices testified that he participated in the armed robberies in question and one victim identified the defendant as his assa

  • Keane v. Annice Heygood Trevitt Support Trust

    Publication Date: 2007-05-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Colman Keane, Signal Mountain, Tenn., proceeded pro se. C. Robert Melton Haygood, Lynch, Harris, Melton & Watson, Forsyth, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A07A0770

    The ant presented no competent evidence to rebut the plaintiff's allegation that the ant was liable for a corporation's debt under a guaranty agreement he signed, since the affidavit the

  • Coleman v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-04-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Elizabeth Lane, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Macon for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0510

    The defendant approached the victim during her morning jog, lifted her jacket, groped her buttocks, and penetrated her vagina through her clothes with his f

  • Patrick v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Scott Key Sexton, Key & Hendrix PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, and Irene M. Jacobsen, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1810

    The trial court properly sentenced defendant under the general recidivist provisions of OCGA § 17-10-7 c following his conviction for shopli

  • In the Interest of K. M.

    Publication Date: 2007-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James K. Luttrell, Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Dana M. Thompson, Canton, for appellee. Other party representation: James E. Drane III and Gregory T. Douds Flint & Connolly, LLP, Canton.
    Case Number: A07A0139

    The mother moved 12 times in three years, did not visit her children for 14 months, had no phone or transportation, failed to pay child support, did not undergo required substance abuse assessment a