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  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Michael Maloof and Maurice G. Kenner, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Keith E. Adams and Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0656

    Given evidence of informant's reliability, police officer's failure to tell magistrate that informant had a criminal history and pending criminal charges was not fatal to magistrate's finding of pro

  • Griffin v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry D. Wolfe, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Michael E. Hobbs, Deputy Attorney General, and David S. McLaughlin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0744

    The First Offender Act does not mandate sua sponte consideration of whether a defendant is entitled to first offender trea

  • Perkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Aldous D. McCrory McCrory & Baldwin PC, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Calhoun, Pamela D. Brophy, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0216

    Given the circumstantial evidence of defendant's guilt, the trial court could properly deem implausible defendant's claim $37,000 in marijuana delivered to his house belonged to some drunk guy he m

  • Presidential Fin. Corp. v. Francis A. Bonanno Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-08-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Polk Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Craig A. Courville Griffin, Cochrane & Marshall, Atlanta, and Gerald L. Turner Turner & Assocs., Vandalia, Ohio, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0345

    Given ambiguous terms in the contract and the parties' prior course of dealings, one of the party's promissory estoppel action was not susceptible to summary jud

  • Hill v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellis R. Garnett, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0876

    Absent an objection from defendant, trial court properly allowed the state to cross-examine defendant regarding his prior conviction for cocaine posse

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-07-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cynthia W. Harrison, Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0489

    Because the court immediately instructed the jury to disregard the witness's remark that the defendant's fingerprints matched his criminal history, defendant was not entitled to a mis

  • In the Interest of J.M.M. & J.A.M.

    Publication Date: 2000-07-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael L. Edwards Quillian, Lonson & Edwards, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Leo G. Beckmann Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0551

    Evidence that the mother had an alcohol and substance abuse problem, that her second child accidentally suffocated while she was on drugs and that her third child had fetal alcohol syndrome supporte

  • Carter v. Digby

    Publication Date: 2000-07-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William G. Dobson Morriss, Lober & Dobson LLC, Macon, Daniel Shim and Bruce F. Morriss Bruce F. Morriss PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason K. Priebe Lawson & Priebe, and Bonne K. Cole, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0287

    The 6-month period for renewing an action begins on the date that the written voluntary dismissal is filed with the

  • May v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-07-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Randolph Jeffery John W. Spence PC, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan A. Cook, District Attorney, Covington, and Jeffrey L. Foster, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0849

    Since the defendant's felony probation was modified to include his confinement to a diversion center, he committed felony escape when he failed to return to the center after his eight-hour grace p

  • Scandrett v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-07-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emmett J. Arnold, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Lalaine A. Briones, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0534

    The defendant could not challenge the seizure of the bag of cocaine that he threw from his hand as police approached him, because he denied that the cocaine wa