Cedra Mayfield

January 19, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"If it amounts to criminal negligence, it amounts to reckless conduct," said Chief Justice David E. Nahmias during oral arguments in the appeal of former attorney Claud Lee "Tex" McIver III's murder conviction related to the 2016 shooting death of his wife, Diane McIver.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

January 18, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"What we're going to set up is a system where developers are incentivized to manufacture events with zoning officials for the purpose of recounting things they already know and then they go out and change their economic positions and say, 'voila, my property is now immune,'" said appellant attorney Ken Jarrad.

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

January 14, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"I am challenging him in this election because political appointees with little experience undermine confidence in the courtroom," said challenger Elizabeth Fite, 59th State Bar of Georgia President. "Simply put, Georgia families deserve better."

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

January 14, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"I cried in court when a judge yelled at me for being from out of town," said Georgia Court of Appeals Presiding Judge Sara L. Doyle. "Super embarrassing. But I lived. It happens."

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

January 13, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"People have very much concern about COVID-19," said Judge David L. Dickinson. "I don't want anybody to be concerned about their health. That's why we went that way. "

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

January 13, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"We cannot conclude in the face of conflicting evidence that the court would have had no discretion to reach a different judgment had it used the correct facts," read a Georgia Court of Appeals opinion. "We cannot affirm."

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

January 13, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"The Georgia Board of Bar Examiners and The Supreme Court of Georgia Office of Bar Admissions continue to plan for an in-person administration of the bar exam on February 22-23, 2022," read a Georgia Bar Exam update.

By Cedra Mayfield

3 minute read

January 13, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"Procedurally, the 11th Circuit made clear that a conditional dismissal that requires the payment of sanctions is not 'costs' under Rule 41 [of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure]," said Atlanta defense attorney Eric J. Frisch of Copeland, Stair, Kingma & Lovell.

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read

January 12, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"The trial court concluded that Baker's motion to withdraw was untimely because '[t]he plea had been accepted over five and a half years prior,'" read the Georgia Court of Appeals opinion. "But '[i]t is well settled that a motion to withdraw a guilty plea must be filed within the same term of court as the sentence entered on the guilty plea.'"

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

January 11, 2022 | Daily Report Online

"A new opinion will issue in this case, which was docketed to the December 2022 Term of this Court, on or before July 1, 2022," the Supreme Court of Georgia opinion read. "No additional briefing by the parties is required."

By Cedra Mayfield

3 minute read