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  • Simpson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John F. McClellan Jr., Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, and Fred R. Simpson, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2400

    The state could impeach defendant's mother, who would have testified that someone stole the truck that defendant allegedly used in the burglaries, with her conviction for falsely reporting the truck

  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Mack Jr., Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor, and Michael L. Tripp, Assistant Solicitor General, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1145

    The defendant did not raise an affirmative defense when she claimed that she was justified in tossing the officers around and kicking one of them since the state had to prove that the officers were

  • Glore v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amelia G. Pray, Austell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Andrew J. Saliba, Debra H. Bernes and Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1841

    The defendant was not denied effective assistance of counsel since his attorney's closing argument was "nothing short of brilliant" and his actions were trial str

  • Brown v. Allied Printing Ink Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raymond J. O'Reilly Raymond O'Reilly & Assocs. PC, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert J. Wilson Webb, Tanner & Powell LLP, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1650

    The plaintiff failed to established that the defendant violated his civil rights when the defendant fired him for testing positive for cocaine, since there was no evidence that the plaintiff's rand

  • Ward v. Georgia Dep't of Human Resources

    Publication Date: 2000-01-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackson E. Cox II Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles L. Cash Jr., McDonough, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Katherine S. Davis and Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A99A2162

    Mother did not show she was harmed by the state bringing an child support action against her as an action to establish child support rather than to modify her already-existing child support obliga