Cedra Mayfield

July 08, 2022 | Daily Report Online

See the latest round of Georgia judges who've retired from the bench but continue to preside, thanks to their gubernatorial appointment as senior judges.

By Cedra Mayfield

3 minute read

July 08, 2022 | Daily Report Online

Disparities regarding the court levels to which minority appointments are placed continue to exist. Of the two appellate appointments Kemp made, both are white men. At the superior and state court levels, minorities accounted for a third of Kemp's appointments.

By Cedra Mayfield

3 minute read

July 07, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"Lawyers can expect to have their cases handled as quickly and efficiently as possible," said the newly appointed judge. "I will listen to both sides intently, and be fair to both sides."

By Cedra Mayfield

2 minute read

July 06, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"This opinion will likely make it harder for the many families who lost loved ones during the early stages of the pandemic in facilities like this one to receive justice in a trial by jury," said Michael Perez, an Atlanta litigator unaffiliated with the case.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

July 01, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"The commercial motor vehicle driver that caused this crash violated a laundry list of written safety rules the company had in place," Chris Glover of Beasley Allen in Atlanta. "This was quite possibly the most preventable case I've ever had."

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

June 30, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"This victory is not just about what happened in this Statesboro courtroom but it's important for the bar," said Francys Johnson, founding partner of Davis Bozeman Law in Stateboro. "Lawyers should not have to fear imprisonment for doing their jobs."

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

June 30, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"This case reinforces what we knew to be the law: you need some competent evidence the person violated their probation in the specific manner charged," said appellant attorney W. Scott Smith of Atlanta. "Competent evidence is not hearsay."

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read

June 30, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"The phone lines went down due to the lightning storm on Monday night," said Georgia Court of Appeals Clerk Steve Castlen. "We learned that our phone provider has a tower on top of the Westin Peachtree Plaza that was struck by lightning."

By Cedra Mayfield

2 minute read

June 29, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"There's other ways the defense could have gotten sufficient information in this case," said appellant counsel Jim Neuberger of Atlanta. "Putting a camera in somebody's bedroom to record them having sex with somebody else is going too far."

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

June 29, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"This family just received the word that there will be no charges brought against any of the officers involved in the death on April 12, 2021 of Matthew Zadok Williams," said Williams' family attorney Mawuli Davis of Davis Bozeman in Decatur.

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read