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  • Southern Gen. Ins. Co. v. Foy

    Publication Date: 2006-06-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon L. Bowen, Jennifer J. Walker and Frank E. Jenkins III Jenkins & Olson PC, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: O. Wayne Ellerbee and William A. Turner Jr., Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0509

    No factual issue remained as to whether the plaintiff's son was a resident of her household, since the plaintiff presented uncontradicted evidence that she and her son are responsible for separate p

  • Best v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer R. Burns Public Defender's Office, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Ann M. Elmore, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0360

    The defendant could not complain that the trial court gave his requested charge on identification evidence, even if it tracked the language disapproved of in Brodes v. State, 279 Ga. 435

  • King v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leo J. Knight Jr., Public Defender, Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, Jackson, and Mark S. Daniel, Assistant District Attorney, Forsyth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0146

    The defendant strategically decided not to testify he and his trial counsel "discussed the pros and cons of testifying," including the defendant's criminal record and the opportunity for the prosecu

  • Mitchell v. Interbay Funding LLC

    Publication Date: 2006-05-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Phillips Phillips & Kitchings, Ludowici, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Kyle S. Kotake Morris, Schneider & Prior LLC, Atlanta, and Stanley E. Harris Jr. Karsman, Brooks & Callaway PC, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0630

    The debtors conceded that they failed to make their monthly mortgage payments after June

  • Navarro v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raymon D. Burns, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Matthew D. Crosby, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0537

    The defendant was not in custody when he answered the officers' knock at an apartment door, invited the officers inside, then admitted that he was at the scene of an aggravated assault and that he s

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  • Sorrells v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phinia-Cou J. Aten, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Peggy A. Katz, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0228

    Both victims positively identified the defendant as the gunman who demanded their money after the first victim withdrew $40 from a

  • Milanovich v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Erickson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amelia G. Pray and Matthew T. McNally, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0830

    Evidence that the defendant climbed through the hole in a fence surrounding a closed business and caused the construction manager enough alarm that he contacted police supported the revocation of hi

  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary M. Newberry, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Ronald M. Adams, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0064

    There was no reasonable probability that plea counsel's alleged assurance that the defendant would only serve three years for pleading guilty to forgery and making a false statement misled the defen

  • Tate v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Smith, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, and Brian V. Patterson, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2235

    The defendant was not entitled to a new trial after a juror expressed his dissatisfaction merely with the process of the delibera

  • In the Interest of C. T. M.

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monica N. Hamlett, Assistant Pub. Defender, and William A. Adams Jr., Thomaston, for appellant.
    for defendant: John R. Mallory, Alonzo J. Bentley Jr., Thomaston, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2039

    The mother's failure to maintain stable housing and employment for a period of three years supported the termination of her parental r