Legal Opinion

Ruffin v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided June 30, 2008No. S08A0493PublishedCited by 132 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

663 S.E.2d 189 (2008)

RUFFIN

v.

The STATE.

No. S08A0493.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

June 30, 2008.

Zell & Zell, R. Samuel Zell, Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.

Paul L. Howard, Jr., Dist. Atty., Ronald Steve Boyter, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Bettieanne C. Hart, Dist. Atty., Marc A. Mallon, Asst. Dist. Atty., Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., for appellee.

SEARS, Chief Justice.

Roderick Ruffin was indicted in April 2005 for malice murder and other crimes in connection with the shooting death of Allen Burdette two years earlier. After his trial date was continued a third time because of the State's insistence that…

2Cases cited34 opinions

  1. Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. Baker v. McCollanSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. United States v. MarionSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  4. Doggett v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
  5. Klopfer v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967

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3Cited by132 opinions

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