Cedra Mayfield

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

June 28, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"We didn't just start with liability and end with damages," said plaintiff counsel Zachary R. Sprouse and Brent Savage Jr. of Savage, Turner, Pinckney, Savage & Sprouse in Savannah. "We tried to weave in witnesses who could talk about damages each day."

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

June 27, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"They expect their rights to be fully restored at the end that temporary custody and dependency case," said appellant attorney David B. Hume of Hume, Jaacks & Associates. "That includes the right to direct the religious upbringing of their children and the right to object to vaccinating their children."

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

June 27, 2022 | Daily Report Online

The federal complaint alleges the Grantville defendants engaged in "targeted and pervasive racial discrimination," allowed "a convicted felon...to impersonate a police officer and "issued police officers AR-15 semi-automatic rifles without providing or requiring appropriate training and certification on such weapons."

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

June 24, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"It's either judicial immunity or it's official immunity," argued appellant attorney Craig T. Jones of Washington, Georgia. "There's no 'quasi-in-between' that gives non-judicial functions absolute immunity."

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

June 23, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"I'm going to miss many parts of my work here, but what I'll miss most of all is my colleagues and my friends on this court," said Supreme Court of Georgia Chief Justice David Nahmias.

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read