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  • Pinckney v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-02-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth T. Israel, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Amelia G. Pray and Rose L. Wing, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2010

    Defendant did not unambiguously request counsel when he inquired about the procedures involved if he wanted a public def

  • Frayall v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-02-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Sparger Jackson & Schiavone, and John R. Calhoun, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Arvo H. Henifin, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2411

    The jury was authorized to find that the defendant used her vehicle as a deadly or offensive weapon when she drove off, despite knowing that a police officer was struggling to enter th

  • Butler v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-01-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry V. Smith and Bret E. Rudeseal, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bryant G. Speed II, District Attorney, and Charles S. Cox, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1785

    The evidence authorized a finding that defendant knew about her accomplice's plan to set fire to the victims' cars and that defendant was more than an accessory after the

  • Grant v. Douglas Women's Clinic PC

    Publication Date: 2003-01-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph H. King Jr. and Adrienne P. Hobbs King & Hobbs, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Ramon D. Sammons Jr., Paul E. Weathington, Gary R. McCain, Robert T. Strang III Allen, Weathington & Reeves PC, and John E. Hall Jr. Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A2187

    The defendant doctor was not entitled to summary judgment where a jury issue remained as to whether a physician/patient relationship existed between the doctor and the plaintiff at the time of the

  • Department of Transp. v. Robinson

    Publication Date: 2003-01-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, R. O. Lerer, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Thomas C. Dempsey Weiner, Yancey, Dempsey & Diggs, Atlanta, and James R. Crawford, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: W. Wright Gammon Jr. Gammon & Anderson, Cedartown, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1842

    Evidence of the DOT's interference with the con s' easement of access was admissible since the DOT's road-widening project called for removal of a lane which provided unimpeded access to the co

  • Hutto v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-01-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin C. Free, Winder, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2382

    The officer did not need probable cause to pull behind the defendant's stopped motorcycle to see if defendant neede

  • Gibbs v. Loomis, Fargo & Co.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert N. Katz Hewitt, Katz, Stepp & Wright, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lynn M. Roberson Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1755

    Defendants had probable cause to believe that the plaintiff was guilty of

  • R&S Farms Inc. d/b/a Master Care Floor Serv. v. Butler

    Publication Date: 2003-01-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore Freeman and Andrea S. Hirsch Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip M. Brown and Jarome E. Gautreaux O'Neal, Brown & Clark PC, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: Douglas A. Wilde Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A02A1620

    Plaintiff failed to show that a janitorial service assumed any contractual duty to protect or warn grocery store patrons of a foreign substance on the floor of the grocery store's dairy

  • Clonts v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-01-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel and William C. Lea Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James R. Osborne, District Attorney, and Theo M. Sereebutra, Assistant District Attorney, Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2186

    The trial court did not err in allowing evidence that the defendant told the victim's fianc that he had Xanax since the state's theory was that the victim was drugged and the victim testified that s

  • Hunter v. Werner Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Calhoun Jr., Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Mary D. Owens and Terry O. Brantley Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1145

    The defendant's conduct in failing to produce evidence that its ladders could be damaged if not transported in a certain manner unfairly prejudiced the plaintiff's injury case arising out of a fall