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  • Eason v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Valerie C. Cooke, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0354

    The defendant cut the victim across his face with a pocket knife, causing extensive injury to the victim's nose and sinus c

  • State v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Richard H. Kimberly Jr. and Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John D. Thalhimer, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0070

    Grant of the defendant's motion to suppress marijuana found in his pocket reversed and case remanded since the trial court did not make a determination of whether the defendant's consent to search w

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monica T. Myles, Public Defender, and Jeffrey M. Gore Douglas County Public Defender's Office, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, Christopher R. Johnson and James E. Barker, Assistant District Attorneys, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0136

    The trial court properly denied the defendant's plea in bar of double jeopardy on his retrial for armed robbery after the defendant materially breached a negotiated plea bargain by refusing to testi

  • In the Interest of J. P. V.

    Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sheryl D. Fambrough, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and John R. Laseter, Special Assistant Attorney General, Monroe, for appellee. Other party representation: David F. Dickinson Dickinson, Mixson & Willis, G. Randolph Jeffery John W. Spence PC and Renee Skipper, Social Worker, Monroe.
    Case Number: A03A0232

    The mother's history of mental health problems and inability to refrain from drug and alcohol abuse supported the termination of her parental r

  • State v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, and Paul A. Shorstein, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Xavier C. Dicks, Stone Mountain, and David R. Trainor, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0183

    The officer lacked probable cause to detain the defendant based solely on defendant's nervousness when the officer approached him in a motel bree

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  • Hill v. Paluzzi

    Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hayes M. Dever and Patricia J. Duffy Friedman, Dever & Merlin LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Gregg Loomis, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0213

    A monetary payment provided for in a consent decree between a developer and a group of condominium owners was not enforceable through contempt procee

  • Collier v. Merck

    Publication Date: 2003-05-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry D. Wolfe L. David Wolfe PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles G. Hicks, County Attorney, William J. Linkhous III, Chief Assistant County Attorney, Sam L. Brannen Jr., Assistant County Attorney, Allison L. Byrd and Sonja M. Cox DeKalb County Law Dep't, Decatur, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0249

    The defendant's writ of certiorari appealing his conviction for violating a county ordi was fundamentally flawed since the defendant did not include a copy of the relevant ordi

  • Taylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel G. Oliver, Darien, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Durden Jr., District Attorney, and Joe G. Skeens, Assistant District Attorney, Hinesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0553

    Evidence that the defendant was in possession of 6.6 grams of marijuana, some of which was individually packaged in smaller amounts, supported his conviction for marijuana possession with intent to

  • Emory Univ. v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2003-05-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen H. Sparwath Jennings, Sparwath & Satcher, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: G. Samuel Burnette and Benjamin D. Driggers Burnette & Driggers LLC, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0101

    The plaintiff assumed the risk of her injuries when she chose to negotiate a wet wheelchair access ramp, which had been treated with a non-slip co

  • American Mobile Imaging Inc. v. Miles

    Publication Date: 2003-05-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary R. Hurst Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Craig A. Webster, Duluth, for appellee. Other party representation: Lee Southwell State Bd. Workers Compensation, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A03A0018

    Notice of an employee's workers' compensation claim by first-class mail was reasonably calculated to notify the employer and insurer of her claim and give them the opportunity to o