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  • Glover v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dennis C. O'Brien, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Debra H. Bernes, Assistant District Attorney, Nancy I. Jordon Bentley, Bentley & Bentley and Benjamin F. Smith Jr., Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A0389

    On remand from the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals held that the trial court erred in relying on O.C.G.A. § 42-8-34.1 in revoking defendant's prob

  • Smith v. Direct Media Co.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Lance Smith III, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph E. East, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2160

    Because the defendant never gave the plaintiff any indication that he did not consider himself liable for the parties' advertising contract, the defendant was equitably estopped from relying on his

  • McBride v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lorenzo C. Merritt, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rene J. Martin III, District Attorney, and Keith A. McIntyre, Assistant District Attorney Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2045

    In reseating three white female potential jurors, the trial court failed to consider whether the state proved intentional discrimination in the defendant's use of his peremptory st

  • Arnold v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan J. Baverman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Timothy B. Lumpkin, Assistant District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2375

    Evidence that defendant threatened to shoot one of the arresting officers supported his convi for felony obstru

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Sherrer Jr., Vienna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick J. McDonough, District Attorney, and Richard E. Thomas, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2421

    Because defendant's first convi for carrying a concealed weapon was a misdemeanor offense, the trial court erred in sentencing him to five years on that convi

  • Hurley v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Samuel Atkins Jr. Atkins Law Firm, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis C. Sanders, District Attorney, and William P. Doupe, Assistant District Attorney, Thomson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1873

    Defendant's claim that his lawyer tricked him into entering a guilty plea was meri

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John E. Pirkle, Hinesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Durden Jr., District Attorney, and Richard E. Braun Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Hinesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2133

    Computer printouts from the Georgia Crime Information Center were admissible based on a certified GCIC operator's testimony that she obtained the printouts from a GCIC ter

  • Brennan v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David G. Brennan, Chester, proceeded pro se. Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, Jackson, and Mark S. Daniel, Assistant District Attorney, Forsyth, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A00A2116

    The trial court failed to hold an evidentiary hearing on the defendant's motion for an out-of-time appeal to determine whether the defendant bore the ultimate responsibility for his counsel's failur

  • Goss v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth M. Grant Legal Aid & Defender Clinic, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harry N. Gordon, District Attorney, and William W. Tanner, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2454

    The evidence, though circumstantial, was sufficient to corroborate the accomplice's testimony that defendant took weapons, jewelry, a video camera and a stamp collection from a house where he attend

  • Kier v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karla L. Walker Copeland & Haugabrook, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Bradfield M. Shealy, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1899

    The jury was authorized to reject the defendant's conflicting explanations as to why he was driving a stolen tractor and motorcycle toward his home at 2:30 in the mo