• Connell v. Head

    Publication Date: 2002-01-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Clinton Sumner Jr. and Susan D. Taylor Magruder & Sumner, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: P. Cole Law, Cartersville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A1871

    The exclusive remedy provision of Georgia's Workers' Compensation Act barred a school employee's injury suit involving another school employee on school property, even though the plaintiff had signe

  • Carter v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-01-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William C. Head, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A1735

    The state is not required to re-serve its discovery materials on each new attorney a felony defendant re

  • Wallace v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-01-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Mobley II, LaGrange, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, and Melvin E. Hyde Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2151

    The state was not required to prove that the child molestation occurred on a certain date because the exact date of the molestation was not an essential element of the charged of

  • Huzzie v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-01-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie G. Patterson Patterson & Patterson, LaGrange, for appellant.
    for defendant: Louis J. Kirby, Solicitor General, and Julianne W. Holliday, Assistant Solicitor, LaGrange, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2337

    Defendant's probation officer did not engage in the unauthorized practice of law by preparing and filing a probation revocation pet

  • Worthy v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-01-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry Grandison, Assistant Public Defender, and Lawanda J. O'Bannon, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor General, and Brian K. Ross, Assistant Solicitor, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2017

    The state authenticated a computerized printout of defendant's driving record through an investigator's testimony that she was trained and authorized to access the Georgia Information Crime Computer

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  • Jenkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-01-04
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin H. Eaves, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Douglas, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2123

    Similar transaction evidence is not rendered inadmissible by the fact that a defendant has not yet been tried for the similar of

  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-01-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold A. Sturdivant Sullivan & Sturdivant, Griffin, and Ryan M. Reid, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Fayetteville, and Mark M. Irvin, Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A1879

    Defense counsel was deficient for failing to move to bifurcate defendant's trial where the state's evidence of a prior conviction was relevant to only one of several ch

  • Hendrix v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-01-04
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen J. Tuggle, Solicitor General, Carrollton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2175

    The officer's refusal to drive the de t's 50 miles round trip to accommodate his request to have independent chemical testing done at the hospital of his choice did not constitute a denial of d

  • Caldwell v. Parc Chateau Apartments Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2002-01-04
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank J. Klosik Jr. and Brian W. Johnson Greer, Klosik, Daugherty & Swank, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Emory S. Mabry III Chambers, Mabry, McClelland & Brooks, Alan Y. Saltzman Montlick & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, and Robert M. Malcom Benton, Preston & Malcom PC, Monroe, for appellees.

    Case Number: A01A2314

    Plaintiff could not satisfy the requirements of O.C.G.A. § 9-11-15 c, which authorizes the addition of a new party defendant and the relation back of claims, because she did not add defendant to her

  • Collins v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-21
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas E. White, Cochran, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Vaughn, District Attorney, and Russell P. Spivey, Assistant District Attorney, Eastman, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A1961

    Defendant waived the trial court's error in failing to disqualify his second cousin from the