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  • Morrow v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James P. Brown Jr., McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Rutherford, Charles A. Spahos, Solicitors General, and Lydia M. Ferguson, Assistant Solicitor General, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1091

    A 911 call that two young intoxicated males were cursing and throwing things off the shelf at a grocery store provided reasonable suspicion to the responding officer to perform an investigative stop

  • In the Interest of J. C.

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold B. Baker, Valdosta, and Mark E. Mitchell, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney and Justo C. Cabral III, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1323

    The juvenile court violated the juvenile's right against self-incrimination and her right of confrontation when it failed to warn her that anything she said could be used against nd did not giv

  • Snipes v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, Hampton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Sandra A. Graves, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1614

    The trial court properly refused to charge on the lesser included offense of criminal trespass because there was no evidence of the amount of damage to the door of the house that defendant attempted

  • Lawrence v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hillman J. Toombs Hillman J. Toombs & Assocs. PC, Riverdale, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor General, and Richard R. Burris III, Assistant Solicitor, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1144

    A motorist was not required to exchange information with the driver of a car he hit where no damage resulted from the coll

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, and Pilar Gigante, Assistant Solicitor General, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1478

    A guard's identification of defendant as one of the gunmen, corroborated the accomplice's testimony regarding the defendant's involvement in an armed bank ro

  • Person v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. King, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Kathryn O. Pulliam, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1523

    Defendant could not withdraw his guilty plea after sentencing without showing that such action was necessary to correct a manifest inju

  • Nicholson v. Windham

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Millard C. Farmer Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Emory L. Palmer, Christine L. Mast, H. Lane Young II Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, G. Robert Oliver and Anne M. Zavala-Moushey Oliver, Duckworth, Sparger & Winkle PC, Jonesboro, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A0948

    A jury issue remained as to whether the individual defendants tortiously interfered with the plaintiff's employment contract by soliciting her to engage in criminal activity and causing her terminat

  • Ellis v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark R. Gaffney, Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Jeanne M. Canavan, Assistant District Attorney, and Ingrid D. Skidmore Office of District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1217

    The defendant admitted showing up at the victim's place of employment despite knowing that he was not supposed to contact her as a condition of his

  • Dickey v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-09-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Persse Kicklighter & Persse, Springfield, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rene J. Martin III, District Attorney, and Keith A. McIntyre, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0985

    The trial court was not required to find that defendant wilfully refused to pay resti before revoking his probation since he entered into a contract with the state when he offered to pay rest

  • Upshaw v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-09-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Mason, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, and Stacey S. Jackson, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1076

    Defendant waived any objection to admission of the seized evidence by affirmatively stating that he had no objection after the trial court denied his motion to sup